Re: [Gnumed-devel] More lab test result considerations: groupings

[Karsten Hilbert]

> Come to think of it maybe we don't *need* the various test org  
> "sections" if we maintain the notion of GNUmed "profiles"... under  
> such an approach, we could construct our choice of broad and narrow  
> profiles in
> 
>       clin.test_type_unified
...
> A broader collecting term could be "micro"
> 
> A more-clinically-oriented example might be
> 
>       diab
> 
> which might gather together not only the glucose values but HbA1c,  
> renal / albuminuric and lipid values
> 
> Sound right?
I almost agree. There's value in keeping separate

profile
 under which we group values to be displayed *together*

unified type
 under which we group values to be display *as one type*

panel
 grouping of which HL7 seems to require and which documents
 how tests were ordered and values returned -- regardless
 of how an individual user thinks they want to group
 tests into profiles

Those three have semantic difference of clinical value.

Karsten
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