On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 10:31:41AM -0300, Thomas Beale wrote: > On 15/07/2017 15:36, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > > > > Receiving systems may decide (or not) to group single-analyte > > results one way or another (typically the way they were > > ordered ...) but that is an implementation detail. A result > > may carry with it a reference to the order to facilitate such > > grouping. > > > > but in some cases at least, you would presumably agree that the panel > analytes taken together provide a useful picture. E.g. docs tend to read a > lipids panel as a panel, not just (say) the total cholesterol, but the HDL / > LDL / ratio (or whatever the current science says matters!); same for a > blood panel... > > So, having that panel which was performed from the same sample, taken at a > certain time is what ties them together, not just the order.
Sure. the order would contain a reference to the sample. Which allows for a back-reference from the result. Or, in case an order contains several samples, the result would carry a reference to the sample. My main point is that results should be groupable in other ways than via the panel they are ordered under. Maybe I am barking up the wrong tree - is panel only meant to reference the "probe" or "sample" ? Typically, "panel" is a tool for (lazy ;-) doctors, providing relief from the need to really think about which answers are needed, and hence which questions (tests) need to be asked. Of course, results can be re-grouped dynamically even if the order panel is stored in the returned result but storing more than one result in a result archetype smells like denormalization. However, Normal Form need not be the goal, which I am not competent enough to say. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ eu.pool.sks-keyservers.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 _______________________________________________ openEHR-clinical mailing list openEHR-clinical@lists.openehr.org http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-clinical_lists.openehr.org
