Re: [Gnumed-devel] Request For Comment

[Jim Busser]

On 9-Mar-09, at 4:03 PM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> Is it realistic to assume that someone who has trouble
> knowing "0.5" to mean "one half" will be OK with "1/2" (in
> proper superscript / subscript format) to mean "one half" ?

I think some patients might understand 1/2 properly formatted, when  
they might not have understood 0.5, however the fraction has its own  
down-sides of usually-smaller font and therefore more poorly  
readable. I am recognizing this increasingly as my own eyes age!

> > I wonder whether it would be in the step of selecting a printout
> > "format" that the clinician would decide what a particular patient
> > needs?
> It would, yes. I don't think it is unrealistic either.
> Fairly easy to implement, too. Feel free to put it on the
> Wiki page. One might event decide to put both of 0.5 (or
> 1/2) *and* "one half", say in parenthesis, onto the
> printout.

will do