Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed client 0.9.2 Notes plugin "active problems" column improvements

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 03:12:26PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> > Last                Problem                         Health issue
> > ---------------------------------------------
> > 7/2010              poor control            Diabetes
> 
> … IOW the column name ("Health Issue") contains an explicit value only when 
> the active problem (at left) is an episode inside an identified Health Issue.

That's right.

> When an episode is so-far unattributed, it is only not yet
> inside a health issue because a diagnosis has not yet been
> made. In the case of active but as-yet-unexplained episodes,
> I think it is important to be thinking about what
> undiagnosed Health Issue may be the cause, and so instead of
>
> > Last                Problem                         In health issue
> > ---------------------------------------------
> > 11/2010             flu                                     0
> 
> I would favour
> 
> > 11/2010             flu                                     ?

Done.

> When the Problem *is* the Health Issue (and the two values
> are therefore the same), the default would be to list the
> same text side by side in the two columns and what we are
> wrestling with is the best way to say "these are the same".

Yes.

> ↲ which is Unicode 21B2 (UTF8: E2 86 B2) DOWNWARDS ARROW WITH TIP LEFTWARDS

I like this one. But this one:

        http://fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/21b5/index.htm

I like even better.

Karsten
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