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

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 08:15:45PM +0000, Jim Busser wrote:

> pink for
> - high
> - multi-test cells that contain one or more highs, plus any number of normals
> 
> light blue for
> - low
> - multi-test cells that contain one or more lows, plus any number of normals
> 
> plum for
> - multi-test cells which contains both lows and highs
> 
> rationale:
> - plum represents a combination of pink and light blue
> 
> I thought about whether to stick to just {pink, blue} however this would, in 
> the case of a mixed value cell, require one colour to override the other and 
> thus beg the question
> 
>       "what is more clinically concerning … a high or low value"
> 
> but there is no uniform answer because
> - in the case of drug levels, highs would more often be a bigger concern
> - in the case of enzyme levels, highs would more often be a bigger concern
> - but in the case of glucose and some electrolytes, low could be a bigger 
> concern

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