Stream: implementers
Topic: Patient’s preferred name use
Ardon Toonstra (Oct 10 2016 at 11:42):
Hi all,
I am trying to find the right spot to store information about which name a patients prefers. In my usecase this is one of four values (Own, Own-maiden, Maiden, Maiden-Own). The element ‘use’ doesn’t seem appropriate.
Without using an extension I thought of using the ‘text’ element by representing the full name here based on the preferred option of the Patient. Does this sound like a good solution?
Did others run into the same problem as well? Do you know of already made extensions?
John Moehrke (Oct 10 2016 at 12:52):
I think 'nickname' is the vocabulary for your use-case... It does seem less optimal. It would be good to enter a CP asking for a more formal code; or to allow extension of the valueset.
Ardon Toonstra (Oct 10 2016 at 13:13):
I get your point to use nickname in the element Use but it is indeed not optimal. Will enter a CP request. Still curious if other people have run into this as well.
Brian Postlethwaite (Oct 10 2016 at 13:22):
We are using Nickname to for this purpose.
Ardon Toonstra (Oct 10 2016 at 16:45):
Thank you Brian and John. Probably we we will use it as well
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