Re: Quantities of arbitrary units in openEHR

2018-01-29 Thread Bert Verhees
On 29-01-18 15:22, Thomas Beale wrote: Another idea is to change it to a CODE_PHRASE, with terminology_id = UCUM Yes, I understand the decision, but IO regard it as a quick decision which can cause problems on the longer term. For the record, I object against this decision for the last time.

Re: Quantities of arbitrary units in openEHR

2018-01-29 Thread Pablo Pazos
Hi Silje, On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 11:15 AM, Bakke, Silje Ljosland < silje.ljosland.ba...@nasjonalikt.no> wrote: > Hi, > > > > «Any units» isn’t the same as “arbitrary units”. As I wrote below, > “arbitrary units” in the context of biomedicine are units which are defined > by biological activity,

Re: Quantities of arbitrary units in openEHR

2018-01-29 Thread Thomas Beale
Hi Pablo, It seems to me that it is better to keep it a String - which is what UCUM units are - and to consider adding a property field. Another idea is to change it to a CODE_PHRASE, with terminology_id = UCUM, but I'm not sure that buys us anything really, if we keep using UCUM, which I thi

RE: Quantities of arbitrary units in openEHR

2018-01-29 Thread Bakke, Silje Ljosland
Hi, «Any units» isn’t the same as “arbitrary units”. As I wrote below, “arbitrary units” in the context of biomedicine are units which are defined by biological activity, such as level of allergic reaction or enzymatic activity. This is done to be able to compare the concentration of different