Re: [Gnumed-devel] Encounter, Encountlet, Episode, Health issue, Problem

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 02:32:23PM -0700, James Busser wrote:

> Episodes also provides an aggregation of encounters that helps to  
> visualize a patient having a suspiciously high number / frequency of  
> episodes. We cannot easily judge only from encounters, because patient's 
> personalities and needs vary... some might come in only once or twice, 
> and another a dozen times, for what (in the doctor's view) might be the 
> same severity / complexity of illness.

I hadn't looked at it that way yet but, yes, that surely is
something one could visualize from the data !

Karsten
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