Re: [Gnumed-devel] Gui-Designers was the id_name debate

[E Dodd]

On Friday 17 September 2004 11:18, J Busser wrote:

> >Yet another possibility would be to assume a pseudo identity
> >with formally valid but factually incorrect demographics.
>
snip
> >BTW what about liability ? I think it might be possible to
> >construe cases where the doctor would have done/recommended
> >certain checks/procedures had he known the real age but didn't
> >in view of the lack of age information ?
>
> I repeat it seems important to be able to create a patient with a
> date of birth that is any of:
> - null (default) or
> - valid date or
> - ? possibly - somehow able to be recorded as "believed to be
> unknowable" or (perhaps) only a year of birth as an approximate year
> which may or not be correct.
>

currently we leave the dob blank, accept the warning box, and continue.
the path lab usually gets the info out of them, transfers it back with results 
and I enter it later...
liz

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