Hi,

At the Term_definition section of the ADL specifications (1.4 and 1.5), we
can read that "Each term is defined using a structure of name/value pairs,
and must at least include the names ?text? and ?description?, which are
akin to the usual rubric, and full definition found in terminologies like
SNOMED-CT".

Although being in essence true, we can find examples where de description
part is not needed. For example, at
the openEHR-EHR-OBSERVATION.lab_test-histopathology.v1, we can see:

["at0074"] = <
    text = <"Aborted">
    description = <"*">
>

The "*" is the default value inserted by the archetype editor. Shouldn't
have more sense to make description a not mandatory field? For very simple
data items probably it will not be needed. This also applies to the
constraint_definition that follows the same structure.

David

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David Moner Cano
Grupo de Inform?tica Biom?dica - IBIME
Instituto ITACA
http://www.ibime.upv.es

Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia (UPV)
Camino de Vera, s/n, Edificio G-8, Acceso B, 3? planta
Valencia ? 46022 (Espa?a)
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