Re: [Gnumed-devel] Marital Status (was Re:How gnumed deals with death)

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 07:34:43PM +1000, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:

> > What also does this imply about whether anywhere to capture religious  
> > affiliation?
> We are supposed to collect data on ethnic origin

Ethnicity seems much more clinically relevant with the
emergence of tailored drugs (or preference of choice among
available ones).

> to me eg Jehovah Witness. 
+1

> I'm more likely to record which pharmacy they use..

That'd be part of the "social and care network" which is to
exist under demographics - other doctors, significant
others, emergency contact, etc.

> Our current software has three or four fields which are for practice choice 
> in 
> the demographics - so we could be recording religion or anything else useful 
> or useless
> Perhaps such a concept could help here.

We've got a few of those, too, associated with, say, a name
or an identity.

Karsten
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