Hi Thomas,

I think I have used DV+DURATION in all of these circumstances.. My
impression has been that DV_QUANTITY with time property was
deprecated.

Ian

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On 17 December 2010 13:48, Thomas Beale
<thomas.beale at oceaninformatics.com> wrote:
>
> The most usual uses are:
>
> DV_DURATION - time periods in the 'social' timescale, e.g. hours, days,
> weeks, months, years - e.g. pregnancy, Expected Date of Delivery, duration
> of migraine
> DV_QUANTITY - short time periods, being treated more mathematically, e.g.
> seconds or smaller, minutes and hours
>
> both can be used for computation and can be inter-converted.
>
> - thomas
>
> On 17/12/2010 13:22, Leonardo Moretti wrote:
>
> I'm wondering which is the correct use of DV_DURATION and DV_QUANTITY...
> When using DV_QUANTITY with property attribute 'time' (openehr::128) and
> when using DV_DURATION?
>
> Regards
> leo
>
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