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Re: [Gnumed-devel] TestResultConcepts
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Karsten Hilbert |
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Re: [Gnumed-devel] TestResultConcepts |
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Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:04:19 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:01:58PM -0700, James Busser wrote:
> In the case of a blood pressure measurement, the specimen invariably
> the patient!
:-)
>> #LabConceptTestType
>> $ Test Type: Formalized proceedings upon specimens, in order to
>> establish information about a patient. Each test type is denoted by
>> some type of code, even though the codes could range from open
>> standards down to arbitrary decisions within single organizations.
>
> I added
>
> It would be possible to use different test types to distinguish blood
> pressure measurements as recorded manually in-office by a clinician from
> those done by an automated or ambulatory device.
>
> Conjecture: whether to unify all types of blood pressure readings could
> be decided at a praxis level. It could be decided to unify in-office
> readings (whether done by the clinician or by a machine) and to
> separately unify automated ambulatory and patient self-measurement, but
> to avoid unifying across all of these, since in-office and ambulatory are
> held to have different meanings.
Did you want confirmation on the conjecture ? If so, yes it
can be done. However, the GUI does not yet support doing so
(but pgadminIII can ... :^)
Karsten
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