Linking Patients - Parents & Children and Navigating the Relationship

[ssmusoke (Stephen Senkomago Musoke)]

I am wondering how to link a parent and their child - here I assume that I am need to use the relationship attribute. However I am wondering how to walk the relationship so what on the child patient page I show a link to the parent, and on the parents page I show a link to all their children

[wyclif (Wyclif Luyima)]

You should be using RelationshipTypes and not attributes, the relationship type allows you to set aIsToB or bIsToA which specify who the parent or child is, so you would have to create a Parent/Child relation type if it doesn’t exist and then on the patient page you fetch and display all relationships of type Parent/Child.

[janflowers]

Here’s a thread talking about the same thing:

Patient relationships in OpenMRS (specifically, MCH)

Has anyone created the workflow in OpenMRS that ties the record of one patient to another, such as a child’s patient record to the mother’s patient record? My assumption is that the id of the parent should be attached to the childs (or vice versa) as a patient attribute, but maybe there is a better way? Adding @steliomo to this conversation so he can track the responses…

[ssmusoke (Stephen Senkomago Musoke)]

Thanks will look into that