On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 08:16:09AM +1000, Ian Haywood wrote: > >codes from coding systems (LOINC, ICD, ICPC, Ozcode, ...): > Permit me to digress briefly: > I would add ATC (drugs) and MBS (surgical procedures, in AU) too. It is entirely arbitrary *which* coding system a code is from. Terms can be coded with as many as is needed.
> As has been said, it would be interesting (although less important) to be > able to code Soap and sOap too. Again, the approach 1) with a coded_narrative table "allows" coding *any* narrative no matter the source table/field. > In other circumstances, IMHO, the narrative should be broken up. Yes. > There's no reason why > we can't have multiple entries in each SOAP category for a given SOAP note, We can already. > Another suggestion is to let the codes table have an "ancestor" column, > (which can be NULL) which allows hierarchies of codes where this makes > sense. But this can easily happen outside the base coded_narrative. Coded_narrative isn't supposed to be our formal table of term - code lists. Those reside in the reference service. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
