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Re: Run-time name constraints and appropriate use of terminologies


On 30/08/2010 10:18, Diego Boscá wrote:
What about a person that is only used for family history for an
illness? Maybe you only know that the grandparent called 'John'
suffered from the same disease of your patient, but you don't know
much more about him.


Typically in this case the name will just appear in clinical notes, as an instance of PARTY_RELATED, where the name is set to 'John', but with no connection to the demographic system, and no record in there for him (since all we have is a name and a relationship to the patient).

- thomas beale

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