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

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 06:48:54PM +0000, Jim Busser wrote:

> >> Cholesterol is perhaps not the best example. Think GGT
> > 
> > Or, perhaps, HbA1c / blood glucose.
> 
> Again, I think that
> 
>       target range
> 
> provides a much more practical method of managing the patient's results.
> 
> Taking this very latest example of HbA1c
> 
> - for my patients who are not yet known to be diabetic, I would maintain 
> their "target range" to be NULL
> - for such patients, any HbA1c above the lab's normal range ( 4 - 6 %) is 
> both abnormal and of potential interest
> - in the case where an HbA1c is 6.2 % or 6.4%, I will appreciate that GNUmed 
> will auto-shade these pink and thereby bring them to my attention
> 
> Once a patient is determined to be diabetic, and if I
> would set their target as 6% to 7%, then new values of 6.2%
> or 6.4% will be auto-shaded pink until I sign them, and upon
> signing them (with the pre-seeded target of 6% to 7%) these
> cells will no longer be pink.
> 
> If however the patient's HbA1c was 7.2% it would remain
> pink, and on review with the patient I can easily identify
> to them "well, it is not quite as good as we should be able
> to manage in your case".

Pink - is that the answer to

- multi-test cells with low/normal/high ?
- low vs high cells ?

Did you intentionally start mixing unsigned with abnormal ?

Karsten
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