The latter...you are not forced to have every entry in the languahge of the composition. Sam Sam Heard via Blackberry CEO Ocean Informatics +61417838808
-----Original Message----- From: Peter Gummer <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 11:19:24 To: For openEHR technical discussions<openehr-technical at chime.ucl.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Should ATTESTATION.reason datatype really be DV_TEXT or rather DV_CODED_TEXT (or perhaps CODE_PHRASE)? Thomas Beale wrote: >>>> Are end users really supposed to see the DV_TEXT.value >>>> of those? ... >>> ... we historically decided that it was always better >>> to have the original text of any coded element, in the original >>> language. >> When you say "in the original language", do you mean the original >> language of the archetype, or do you mean the original language that >> the user saw on the screen when the data was committed? > > it is the latter - the archetype's original language is irrelevant - > we are only interested in the locale language of the committing > user, which could easily be different. That makes sense. On committing the contribution, is there validation of the DV_CODED_TEXT.value to ensure that it is the same text as the value defined for the committing user's language, for that code in that terminology? - Peter Gummer _______________________________________________ openEHR-technical mailing list openEHR-technical at openehr.org http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical
