Re: [Gnumed-devel] Measurement conversion concepts

[Busser, Jim]

On 2013-12-02, at 1:22 AM, Karsten Hilbert <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 06:46:31AM +0000, Jim Busser wrote:
> 
>> (2) less straight forward is the case of something like
>> 
>>      umol/L <--> mg/dL
> 
>> but in the case where the substrate *does* matter, how to provide for that?
> 
> The test would need to have that linked to it.

I was hoping that we could provide (share within the GNUmed community) 
conversions in such a way as to not have to require each praxis to manually 
link each of their test_types to various conversion rows.

It is the reason why (in one of my subsequent posts) I wondered about the 
possibility of using something more general than a LOINC, like an analyte. 
Ideally we would have something like the equivalent of a drug INN for test 
substrates (analytes).

-- Jim