Re: [Gnumed-devel] script tables

[Karsten Hilbert]

> That's why some people believe I'm trying to do abstract painting when
> trying to read my handwriting :)
Actually, the law tells you to use 10 point Courier on scripts
:-)

>> keeping a list of current medications
>> -------------------------------------
> BTW, is there any concept on how to deal with those links between
> description/therapy/referral to specialist and a given medical problem
> in general ?
We will probably keep two lists:

a) "episodes" some of which may be currently active
b) "current problems" the active ones of which will always
   belong to active episodes

An active problem may be "lower back pain" which may belong to
the episode "traffic accident 7/02". The current medication
"Tetrazepam" and "Ibuprofen" would link to "lower back pain" as
would the prescription for physical therapy. The stored
scripts, however, would link to the episode as the
administrative act of writing the prescription is a clinical
transaction being part of the episode of care.

> On the backend side this would probably mean a link between e.g.
> clinical_diagnosis and script_drug.
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^
Arrrgh ! current_medication.generic_name !!

Karsten
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