Re: [Gnumed-devel] Family History tables

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:45:45AM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> - we will agree "family" does not (in the EMR design)
> include personally significant non-blood relatives (for
> example "spouse") who we would normally keep in the
> demographics' social network

I don't think that makes sense. "Family" is not well
defined. Currently we are working on the following
interpretation of family, called Family History:

        health risk modifiers in a unit of people in close
        personal contact

Mostly, this will be genetic. Certain things can be
non-genetic (say, "open TB of spouse" or "MRSA in
neurodermitis of stepson").

Karsten
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