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Re: [Gnumed-devel] Medication lists


From: Karsten Hilbert
Subject: Re: [Gnumed-devel] Medication lists
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 00:12:21 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 09:56:59PM +0000, Jim Busser wrote:

> >> - alternatively misleading is when the default "today" is
> >> allowed to be saved, when entering a medication that a
> >> patient is on for some time
> > 
> > At the core this is an operator problem. Nonetheless it is
> > useful to think about ways to reduce such.
> 
> I favor the ability (as when a precise date of birth is
> unknown) to input the year only, when a new patient
> indicates a drug or substance was started "2 or 3 years ago.
> The state of being a year, and not a precise date, can thus
> communicate that it is only approximate.

Doing this cleanly would require writing a Domain Type for
PostgreSQL and writing Python support for same. All
manageable but not an insignificant amount of work.

Karsten
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