Re: [Gnumed-devel] state of test results handling

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 06:59:22PM -0700, James Busser wrote:

> Clinician-verified technical abnormality could *potentially* unify the 
> indicators.
>
> The easiest implementation, however, may be to copy into the signed  
> indicator the same value as was supplied by the test_org (in those cases 
> where the clinician confirms the test_org's indicator) as it might be 
> complicated and a lot of work to have the clinician setting different 
> kinds of technical abnormality flags for different cells...
As far as the clinician is concerned it is a simple yes/no
flag. We concern ourselves with decisions only and let the
lab do the grunt work :-)

> Are we entertaining the visual indication of technical abnormality only 
> by a symbol in the padding, as I am wondering if italics could be helpful 
> for those
Well, either or but not both. Personally, I'd favor a symbol
such that to preserve changes in appearance (slant, pitch,
weight, color) for significance. Which Jim formerly attested
to not wanting to be signalled at all (?), however.

Karsten
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