Re: [Gnumed-devel] Medication lists

[Busser, Jim]

On 2013-07-13, at 1:11 AM, Karsten Hilbert <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 10:22:12PM +0000, Jim Busser wrote:
> 
>> The main thing that I would like us to figure out earlier,
>> rather than later, is how to be able to keep in view a
>> record of what a patient was *previously* taking. Currently,
>> we have a mixture with part of the information disappearing
>> into the audit tables and inaccessible except by going
>> outside of GNUmed using the gm-dbo credential.
> 
> Strictly speaking, the audit trail IS accessible from within
> the GNUmed client (which is, I maintain, is what you mean).
> However, it is not at all practical.

I cannot remember whether I am on record as having explicitly rejected what 
was, in the above reply, maintained.

If GNUmed is to value coherence, and consistency (over, say, arbitrary design) 
then we should next refactor the measurements schema, so as to allow within 
only one value per test, with all prior values having to be deleted and moved 
to the audit table.

Reviewing a patient's values for

        weight
        blood pressure
        serum creatinine
        Hb A1C

should then require to compare their 'current' (single) value to those 
historical values which would exist only in the medication 'audit' tables.

-- Jim