> 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.
As far as "fasting" goes this would also fit the "material_detail" in clin.lab_request... ;-) to which it might be moved later on when appropriate. However, other comments may not fit that field. > 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? I would agree with this approach and it should be documented in the wiki. Karsten -- Ist Ihr Browser Vista-kompatibel? Jetzt die neuesten Browser-Versionen downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/browser _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
