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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