Stream: implementers
Topic: Patient Education
ravi.kuchi (Nov 25 2016 at 20:02):
Is there a resource in DSTU3 that represents a workflow to track Patient Education on issues like Obseity, Smoking or Dialysis Adequacy?
Lloyd McKenzie (Dec 05 2016 at 16:36):
If you're interested in conveying "this sort of information was shared", look at 'Communication'. If you want to track that there was an educational session (e.g. smoking cessation counselling session), look at 'Procedure'.
Lloyd McKenzie (Dec 05 2016 at 16:36):
@ravi.kuchi (And sorry for the slow response)
Malgorzata Schwab (Aug 21 2018 at 23:00):
How would you model Patient Education space? If a patient was educated prior to treatment, ways to learn, possible learning difficulties?
Lloyd McKenzie (Aug 23 2018 at 16:13):
Delivering traning/education to a patient would be Procedure (or just Communication if all you're doing is giving them a pamphlet or pointing them to a website). Assessments of optimal learning styles, learning difficulties would be Observations
Malgorzata Schwab (Sep 04 2018 at 21:47):
Thank you!
Cooper Thompson (Apr 08 2021 at 14:27):
Resurrecting this for a slightly different angle: do we have a resource for representing the actual education content that is being communicated? I.e. the resource that would be referenced by Communication.content? If there is pre-built educational material for topics like availability of community resources like babysitters, information about how to give insulin injections, how to take a blood pressure reading, information about fall risk, etc.. DocumentReference seems like it might be the answer for the content - then you can use Communication to track when/if that was communicated to the patient. DocRef doesn't feel exactly right, but it is the best I see.
Lloyd McKenzie (Apr 08 2021 at 14:58):
We don't have a resource that fully describes educational material - e.g. delivery mode, comprehension level, literature support, etc. However, DocumentReference is the best home we have. And if someone wanted more, profiling DocumentReference would be the most likely path forward.
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