I think that we at least need to find out what the physical basis of this unit is. I could not find any definitive reference online, only papers reporting its use. Any cardiologists here?
- thomas On 29/04/2011 10:25, Grahame Grieve wrote: > Hi Tom > > It's a strange concept for sure. The real question here is whether > UCUM and PQ/DV_QUANTITY are for real measurements, or > whether they for quantitative notions. > > There's general agreement that things like "tablet" etc are not > UCUM units - because they're not quantitative. Now we have a different > issue - these are quantitative, but not real. > > I can see the grounds for keeping them out of UCUM. In > addition, I'd have to recode my ucum library for this, and > it's an odd challenge for such a strange notion. > > On the other hand, why not let scientists how measure things > measure them how they want, as long as the units are meaningful > - to them. > * * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20110429/987d608b/attachment.html>
