Patient date of death not supported by E2E

[irynadavies]

E2E supports date of birth but not date of death which is surprising. Date of death is an important element for evaluating patient status (active vs inactive) and may be important for several clinical indicators/research questions.

This issue is to be discussed with GPI. Logging it here as it may impact SCOOP query design.

[rsimkus]

The EMR I use had a data field for this and I recommend that this be
included as a basic data element for patient demographics.

Typically you would not be transferring records of patients that have
already died but it is a useful bit of data when considering EMR use.
Insurance companies ask for this date, the BC Cancer Agency asks for this
date.

In the same way the date of the first visit is also of use over an over yet
I had difficulty getting others to support the addition of this field.

If the use case is for EMR functionality then I would strongly recommend or
even insist that these dates be included. Considering how long it takes for
things to get revised I think that there is a high level of importance to
include as much as can be included now rather than inflicting pain on EMR
users year after year until these data elements get added in. To think of
a 'minimum data set' is a wrong attitude and if a data element can be
thought of now and has a reasonable use case then it should be included.

Ray

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 12:57 PM, irynadavies [email protected]:

E2E supports date of birth but not date of death which is surprising. Date
of death is an important element for evaluating patient status (active vs
inactive) and may be important for several clinical indicators/research
questions.

This issue is to be discussed with GPI. Logging it here as it may impact
SCOOP query design.

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Raymond Simkus
Langley, BC