Question: Isn't the pain score a COUNT data type?
Gerard -- <private> -- Gerard Freriks, MD Huigsloterdijk 378 2158 LR Buitenkaag The Netherlands T: +31 252544896 M: +31 620347088 E: gfrer at luna.nl Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin 11 Nov 1755 On Feb 10, 2009, at 5:28 PM, Williamtfgoossen at cs.com wrote: > > Thomas, > > Thank you for your reply, however it does not satisfy the request. > > I think that the pain score is indeed not a physical measurable > instrument. > But it is not an Ordinal, in statistical terms it is an Interval if > the numeric score is used (0, 1, 2, 3 etc up to 10) and a ratio when > the VAS scale is used. > Hence reliability studies have determined that it is useful in > practice. > > However, I would like to have the following > > DV_PhysicalQuantity meeting the PQ requirements from ISO 21090 > and the > DV_CodedOrdinal, or DV_Ordinal meeting the requirements for the CO > (Coded Ordinal) from ISO 21090. > The CO does allow the order as we need, and allows the mathematical > operations such as summations, calculations like BMI style, among > others. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20090210/750b8134/attachment.html>
