Yes, making it optional would be a good idea. People can toggle it on if you wish to avoid performing another lookup to get the preferred text further down stream... I'll create a Jira for these. --Pei
> -----Original Message----- > From: Masanz, James J. [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 12:49 PM > To: '[email protected]' > Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] CTS - Adding preferred names > > > We didn't save it to save space since the preferred text can be retrieved > elsewhere once you have the code or cui. > If we add it, I think we should have an option to turn off/on including it. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Chen, Pei > Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 8:28 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [DISCUSS] CTS - Adding preferred names > > An idea/suggestion to the Common Type System: > Add preferred/resolved names in addition to the CUI's/Codes. > Mainly adding some additional fields to save this information: > -Segement.preferredText<String> > -IdentifiedAnnotation.preferredText<String> or > UmlsConcept.preferredText<String> > > I believe this info should already be available, we just didn't save it in > the CTS. > > --Pei
