Re: [Gnumed-devel] Measurements (was: New developer searching for a task)

[Hilmar Berger]

On 5 Dec 2002, Christof Meigen wrote:

> 2) Normalization: Either you stick a measurement to a clinical
>    transaction, which might be not appropriate if people get
>    measured elsewhere or do (like diabetis patients?, or 
>    people with high blood pressure?) measure themselves and
>    tell you, like (I' thinking up something, I'm not a doctor)
>    "Two days ago I had 180/130, yesterday I had 210/150, 
>    so I thought I better come here" or whatever ... "I was on
>    a health resort and the doctor there measured this and that..."
To me it seems that we shouldn't mix up anamnestic information supplied by
the patient with measurements/assesments made by medical personnel.
Usually you can just guess the quality of the information supplied by
patients (exception being experienced/trained patients measuring a small
set of parameters quite frequently). IMHO the usual "fealt ill, measured
*38.7 °C* at home" should reside within the narrative text. If
measurements are really to be extracted to a clinical transaction they
should have some information on the expected quality of this measurement
attached.

Hilmar