Medical History

Medical History

The Medical History "event" is a core domain object for the Animal Inventory Management System. Each Medical History object corresponds to a particular injury, illness, or medical intervention associated with a bird in Dr. Debbie Kelly's Comparative Cognition Lab. Each bird can have any number of Medical History events associated with it. Each Medical History is always associated with a particular bird.

Medical History Object

Code for the MedicalHistory domain object can be found here.

MedicalHistory Attributes

• dateOfReport: Calendar data type. Stores the date at which the Medical History event occurred. It records the first instance of reporting a particular medical issue, and any and all follow up dates can be found in the Notes section of this object.
• healthIssue: A brief description of the health issue that the bird was presented with. This can include any indication of severity of injury, etc.
• treatment: A description of the procedures used to treat the healthIssue.
• notes: A description of any additional details relevant to the health record for this animal. Any updates on the health status of the bird that are relevant to this specific medical history event will go here.