# Archetyping Methodology

**URL:** https://discourse.openehr.org/t/archetyping-methodology/12908
**Category:** Technical (archive)
**Created:** [4 July 2008 06:53 UTC](https://discourse.openehr.org/t/archetyping-methodology/12908 "2008-07-04T06:53:05Z")
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### Author: ![Paria\_Kashfi](https://discourse.openehr.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@Paria\_Kashfi](https://discourse.openehr.org/u/Paria_Kashfi)
#### Post date: [4 July 2008 06:53 UTC](https://discourse.openehr.org/t/archetyping-methodology/12908/1 "2008-07-04T06:53:05Z")

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> Thank to Heather for the Link and Congrats for the new born website!  
> As far as I remember form the tutorial session, Heather- started creating an archetype by a brain storming of what any clinician may ask about smoking or what She may examine during the caring process of a smoker patient,…, (I’m not sure about the kind of disease we discussed that day but surely you remember that example)
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> is it what she-or any other researchers in openEHR area- wanted to show us or I just understood it the way I am used to!  
> Actually, I’m really stuck into this kind of thinking about Archetypes and Templates and maybe it’s because of what we have done up to now in our project creating forms for Clinicians.  
> Briefly, I can categorize what I have in my mind as the methodology of creating an application based on openEHR as bellow:  
> 1- organize number of questions your have in your mind regarding this disease  
> 2- Analyze questions to find if there is any scheme for Archetype or Template in them  
> 3- Search for existing Archetypes that may fairly act as the basis for templates you need for this case  
> 4- Create new Archetypes if needed.  
> 5- Combine Archetypes and create proper templates  
> 6- use templates in Application!
> 
> Cheers  
> -Paria

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