[Gnumed-devel] Treatment plans more generally

[J Busser]

In my other email I suggested

> So far we have a hierarchy of
> - treatment plan elements
>         - treatments that the patient can do on their own
>                 - can include non-prescription drugs!
>                 - can of course include non-drugs
>         - treatments that require a "prescription" (doctor authorization)
>                 - non-drug items
>                 - drug items

A patient's "current medication list" should contain all medicines 
whether available over the counter, or only by prescription. To my 
recollection, we have not discussed whether non-traditional (e.g. 
naturopathic) medicines belong on this list. Does the schema yet 
allow for anything other than the current medication list, in which 
to hold "other" treatments? I suppose we already have vaccinations, 
which are a preventative treatment. I am not sure if we have any 
place other than that. Treatments that fall among {procedures, 
operations} are proposed to exist as the labels of clin_health_issues 
like "status post <operation>" although that would only transpire 
once the event had occurred (not while awaiting a date of surgery).

I suppose one other place from which to generate parts of the current 
treatment plan is from the soaP rows that belong to currently active 
episodes. That would be messy though would it not? All active 
treatments may not get restated in every encountlet's soaP row, and 
so to catch them all you may have to include the content of every 
soaP row from every encounter during the period that the health issue 
has been active. Yuk!