Re: [Gnumed-devel] Vaccine table questions

[Jim Busser]

On 2011-09-12, at 8:11 PM, Jim Busser wrote:

> The problem with is_live is that while the presence of is_live might induce 
> extra caution, the quality of being is_live is not enough to relieve the 
> clinician from the responsibility to know the other contraindications. The 
> same is true where is_live = FALSE.
> 
> I don't want my reluctance to take responsibility for possible manual 
> miscoding of is_live in an uploadable data set to be the reason why 
> clinicians should have to manually input 68 vaccines into 72 forms (with the 
> attendant risks of mis-entering the product information) when all of that 
> information (except the is_live) is available digitally.

If the argument is

        well, it is clinically useful / justifiable to know / require this 
attribute information for all vaccines inventoried in GNUmed

then we should not allow vaccines without an attestation of whether they 
contain egg products, or medications containing gluten or tartrazine (or 
whether they are P450 or renally excreted etc).

-- Jim