Re: [Gnumed-devel] Measurement workflows - value colour red

[Busser, Jim]

On 2013-07-14, at 10:22 AM, Karsten Hilbert <address@hidden> wrote:

> Cholesterol is perhaps not the best example. Think GGT or
> any number of entirely irrelevant tests which are ordered by
> irresponsible clinicians anyway.

I still do not see the value of going to the trouble of "coding" (categorizing) 
abnormal GGTs as irrelevant.

They surely reflect that some process is going on inside the patient.

We only often decide to ignore them because we did not yet assign a clinical 
significance, as the patient is not undergoing obvious damage as far as we are 
aware, and we are not eager to undertake trials of drug discontinuation to see 
which drug(s) are responsible.

Even so, faced wit persistently abnormal GGT and ALK, it may be better to avoid 
to waste time to label them as "irrelevant" and instead to set a target range 
above which to concede that the worsening test abnormality cannot reasonably 
continue to be ignored.

The only other use case that I can see is to add, into the Measurement widgets, 
the capacity to show / hide (filter)

        all results
        all abnormals (lab abnormal, signed abnormal)
        signed relevant

-- Jim