Re: [Gnumed-devel] TestResultConcepts

[Karsten Hilbert]

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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