Class: Clinical_document

Description of: Clinical_document

Class steward is Information Management (Medical Records)
Clinical documents are legally authenticatable persistent units of information generated by healthcare practitioners that document the care provided for patients.

OpenIssue: The functionality of this class overlaps with the functionality of the service class with its associated actors and targets. Additionally, the envisioned high-level HL7 meta-model may represent "information containers" separately from the information itself. Enhancements to the service class, along with the complete specification of such a meta-model will likely obviate the need for this class, and we anticipate deleting this class from the RIM by mid-2001.

Association definitions for: Clinical_document

has_parts (1,1) :: Clinical_document_header :: is_part_of (1,1)

OpenIssue: There appears to be some problems with how this is modeled, and the committees should re-examine this. There must be either attributes or associations added to this class or a persuasive Rationale.