Re: [Gnumed-devel] About systems of codification

[Adrian Midgley]

Free text is often the most interesting and useful _qualifier_ of a termcode.
The rubric - 120 character string giving the human version of the
code's meaning - is most useful to those reading the notes, and is a
good thing to search to find the code, as well as a short termkey.

The code is computable, that is its only function and proper use.



On 29 September 2011 10:02, Karsten Hilbert <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:32:10AM +0200, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
>
>> A coding system can never replace free text in the EMR. It
>> can only serve precisely defined secondary purposes.

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