Dear All, There are many, many, many archetypes in the various openEHR CKMs that DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT use valid UCUM codes for units in various DV_QUANTITY elements. I would guess up to 30% of Observation archetypes have some ‘invalid' UCUM unit.
I spent some time trying to explain the reason for, and ramifications arising from this issue in a previous post. That post arose from Heather Leslie’s concerns about potential major changes to the coveted blood pressure archetype - see https://www.mail-archive.com/openehr-technical@lists.openehr.org/msg09185.html. In that post I stated "Even basic archetypes like Body Temperature define units which are not UCUM-conformant. I consider this to be a more serious issue than the tilt angle of a person whose blood pressure is being recorded." At that time Thomas suggested I raise a Problem Report, but so far I have failed to do so. There are also the related PRs: https://openehr.atlassian.net/browse/SPECPR-13 https://openehr.atlassian.net/browse/SPECPR-96 regards, eric Eric Browne eric.bro...@montagesystems.com.au ph 0414 925 845 skype: eric_browne > On 18 May 2016, at 5:55 pm, Bakke, Silje Ljosland > <silje.ljosland.ba...@nasjonalikt.no> wrote: > > Hi Daniel, > > You’re 100% correct. This error is corrected in the branch I uploaded after > the Norwegian body temp archetype was published, but this hasn’t been taken > into the trunk yet as it contains some other major changes. > > As a general observation, an issue with using UCUM units in archetype (which > is to my mind the only way to go), is that there’s as far as I know no way to > include both the code and the print symbol in the archetype. This imposes a > larger implementation burden on the systems who will have to be able to read > UCUM codes and show the corresponding symbol instead of the code, which in > many cases is not readable to clinicians. > > Kind regards, > Silje Ljosland Bakke > > Information Architect, RN > Coordinator, National Editorial Board for Archetypes > National ICT Norway > > Tel. +47 40203298 > Web: http://arketyper.no / Twitter: @arketyper_no > > From: openEHR-technical [mailto:openehr-technical-boun...@lists.openehr.org] > On Behalf Of Daniel Karlsson > Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 10:09 AM > To: openehr-technical@lists.openehr.org > Subject: UCUM code in body temperature archetype > > Dear All, > > it seems the UCUM code for the temperature units in the Body temperature > archetype is wrong. It uses the UCUM print symbol, e.g. "°C", rather than the > UCUM code "Cel". > > http://www.openehr.org/ckm/#showArchetype_1013.1.49 > > Regards, > Daniel > > -- > Daniel Karlsson, PhD, sr lecturer > Department of Biomedical Engineering/Health informatics > Linköping university > SE-58185 Linköping > Sweden > Ph. +46 708350109, Skype: imt_danka, Hangout: daniel.e.karls...@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-technical mailing list > openEHR-technical@lists.openehr.org > http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org _______________________________________________ openEHR-technical mailing list openEHR-technical@lists.openehr.org http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org
