Pathology requirements TIMED MEASUREMENTS

Bhupinder The protocol describes the methods of measurement - each measure can only have one protocol - so this means that the measurement would be entered twice - quite appropriate because it is unlikely that a different method will lead to exactly the same result. Cheers, Sam -Original

FW: Re: Pathology requirements TEXTURAL RESULTS TO QUANTITIES

-Original Message- From: Sam Heard [mailto:sam.he...@bigpond.com] Sent: Friday, 24 October 2003 11:00 AM To: Tim Churches Subject: RE: Re: Pathology requirements TEXTURAL RESULTS TO QUANTITIES Tim As we seek to achieve automatic processing of some of the data in the EHR there will be

Pathology requirements UNITS

Bhupinder This is an interesting idea...but it raises issues as you have to have normal ranges for each of these. I do not see why the results could not be duplicated in multiple units is required - at present we do not have the ability to add multiple values to a single element apart from as

Pathology requirements CONTRIBUTION - 2 versions at once

Bhipinder Thank you. I think we have all of these issues covered. Sam -Original Message- From: owner-openehr-technical at openehr.org [mailto:owner-openehr-technical at openehr.org]On Behalf Of Bhupinder Singh Sent: Thursday, 23 October 2003 1:23 PM To: Sam Heard; Openehr-Technical

Pathology requirements TEXTURAL RESULTS TO QUANTITIES

I think the fact that some results are a mean calculated by a human is a red-herring. In fact nearly all numerical analyte values from automated machines are a mean of a number of estimates - part of the internal quality control is that the standard deviation of these estimates is acceptable -

Pathology requirements UNITS

Sam et al, At least in the Australian context there are regulatory requirements to report in Standard units only. So reporting the same result in multiple different units is not possible. What the standard units are, will vary across different realms Regards Vince Dr Vincent McCauley -

Pathology requirements TIMED MEASUREMENTS

Bhupinder Singh said: Further to what you have stated there will also be events such as sample is single time is same and the test is same but method of reporting and or conducting test is different. Blood Sugar is one example sample is taken and tested on the bedside and sent to a lab also.

Pathology requirements TEXTURAL RESULTS TO QUANTITIES

Tim Churches wrote: Sam Heard sam.heard at bigpond.com wrote: TEXTURAL RESULTS TO QUANTITIES ?TEXTUAL? This raises the general issue of how mixed categorical/ordinal/scalar quantities are handled eg (made up example) haematuria: Trace-x RBC/ml - Gross haematuria. Conceivably

Pathology requirements UNITS

Bhupinder Singh bobdog at sancharnet.in wrote: Can we not work on a UNITS module where a test can be attached to a number of units where the conversion is not available. A clinician does not want to have to relearn the unit for the convenience of the application. I wonder if units should be

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Bhupinder Singh bobdog at sancharnet.in wrote: You have factored the details relating to reporting. A major issue is the transmission and reading of the result by the clinician. Ther is to be time event to be recorded as to when the clinician who has direct control of the patient has read it.

Pathology requirements TIMED MEASUREMENTS

Bhupinder Singh bobdog at sancharnet.in wrote: Dear Sam, What you say is correct. In clinical practice it is also possible that the same sample is sent to two labs for the same test and the protocol followed by both the labs is same so is the est method and the unit of reporting. The sample