Re: [Gnumed-devel] Challenges in lab test aggregation - panels

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 03:08:14PM +0000, Jim Busser wrote:

>>> But what about the tests which had *not* been aggregated
>>> under a test type?
>>
>> The database acts as if they had their own meta test type
>> defined. IOW, they are "linked" to a virtual meta test type.
>> Each to their own.
>
> Therefore …
>
> 1) a need for a designated common "base" unit, within meta
> test type (per meta test type), to serve as an "arbiter"
> when the components of a meta type each (possibly) had a
> different unit

True. It makes sense to add that once we implement "arbiting".

> 2) if (1) is needed, then is it still useful to maintain
> within test_types a separate "base" unit?

It allows to arbit values of one and the same test type w/o
the need for a meta test type.

Karsten
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