In that case, I don't understand the use case for the 'percent' and 'unitary' variants of the DV_PROPORTION data type. What are they for?
Regards, Silje -----Original Message----- From: openEHR-technical <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Thomas Beale Sent: Friday, January 4, 2019 8:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: DV_PROPORTION vs DV_QUANTITY for % On 03/01/2019 08:37, David Moner wrote: > I think DV_QUANTITY is the option here. Someone could argue that % is > not a proper unit, but it is, both in UCUM and SNOMED CT. > > DV_PROPORTION should be only used when you want to maintain the > numerator and denominator explicitly separated, as a fraction, which > should not be the case with percentages. But it is true that the > definition of the type attribute in the specification is a bit > misleading: "Indicates semantic type of proportion, including percent, > unitary etc." David is right on all counts - use DV_QUANTITY, but we should fix that line in the specification. Can someone raise a PR on that please. - thomas _______________________________________________ openEHR-technical mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org _______________________________________________ openEHR-technical mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org
