Re: [Gnumed-devel] gmClinNarrative: some questions

[J Busser]

On Jul 29, 2004, at 6:31 PM, Ian Haywood wrote:

> Firstly "is_aoe" and "is_rfe": what does it mean if these flags are 
> true
> for SOAP lines other han Subjective or Assessment respectively.
> (i.e how can an Objective comment be a request for encounter?)
> Would it not be simpler to have 2 more SOAP categories, say "r"
> for where S is RFE and "e" for AOE (where an assessment is an AOE)

Within a few days of your having posted your simple SOAP widget, 
Karsten proposed that RFE and AOE be added to the widget though did not 
propose a corresponding adjustment to the backend schema.

His idea might have been that, during parsing,
- if RFE is empty, set is_rfe to TRUE for that episode-encounter's "S" 
row
- if AOE is empty, set is_aoe to TRUE for that episode-encounter's "A" 
row

but I agree it might be cleaner to house any "RFE" text inside a soap 
row where soap_cat=="R" and "AOE" into a soap row where soap_cat=="E". 
Maybe even another character, since the "E" does not nicely convey or 
remind AOE. Since the AOE is a "special" row we could assign a more 
"special" character like "X" as in "X marks the spot" or, if the value 
need not be an alpha character, even "=" (what it "equals") or maybe 
"!" (denoting the emphasis) ;-)  The chosen character may matter little 
if the user never sees it, but maybe the values will come into view at 
a later stage.