Tim These links are very helpful...particularly to show that the idea of episode is about one consultant - rather than admission. The Australian data dictionary is about an admitted patient episode.
It is clear that many types of groupings will be required. The Folders solution may be one - but I believe a 'persistent' EVALUATION which is archetyped for the purpose is more likely to be useful....as it will allow collection of whatever data is required. Sam Tim Churches wrote: > On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 12:42, Thomas Beale wrote: > >>This is part of a discussion that started off the list. The need is to >>be able to model Episodes in openEHR, while remaining compatible with >>available structures. > > > See http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/329/7476/1207 > > and http://snipurl.com/armv > > for definitions of statistical episodes, which may or may not correspond > to clinical episodes. > - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
