I am just realizing, from looking at a sample message, that in the
case of a panel like a "lipid profile" the lab can return comment
information like "Fasting" in an OBR NTE field.
This is a comment on this patient's instance of this test panel, and
not necessarily a comment about the intrinsic characteristics of the
test, therefore should not actually go into clin.test_type.note_test_org
As this "fasting" comment characterizes the lipid profile panel, it
would apply to all of its parts.
One option for storing this comment be to store it replicated inside
each of the individual test results in the panel, as stored in
test_result.note_provider (to be renamed note_test_org), which is
where the individual result-specific OBX NTE 003 (Comment) will also
go. That would save us having to normalize it out to a separate table
for panel_data
Maybe within note_provider (to be renamed note_test_org) the OBR
comment should be stored as "Test comment: <comment>" and the OBX
comment stored as "Result comment: <comment>". How does that sound?
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