Stream: implementers
Topic: Age of young children
Radmila Bord (Jan 19 2017 at 15:44):
Does anyone know how age of a child who is younger than one year comes through in medical record?
Lloyd McKenzie (Jan 19 2017 at 15:48):
Typically we share the precise date of birth (and for newborns, there's an extension that can capture time of birth). Systems then calculate and display the patient's age as of "now" - and adjust the measurement units from minutes to hours/days/weeks/months/years.
Radmila Bord (Jan 19 2017 at 17:19):
Is measuring unit part of the record?
Yunwei Wang (Jan 19 2017 at 19:11):
There is a Extension to catch birthTime http://hl7.org/fhir/extension-patient-birthtime.html
Yunwei Wang (Jan 19 2017 at 19:12):
Then it is up to the implementer to decide how to calculate age based on the information FHIR provided.
Lloyd McKenzie (Jan 19 2017 at 19:53):
@Radmila Bord Measuring unit for date & time of birth? If you're communicating an observation, then yes you can capture units. But, unless you're filling in a questionnaire or something, we typically don't capture age, we capture birth date and then systems capture age as necessary.
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