Is much different to change the field from 'test result:positive/negative' to 'test result positive:true/false'? If the semantics if not the same then the 'positive/negative' has more meaning that a simple boolean and I think they should be coded
2011/2/2 Koray Atalag <k.atalag at auckland.ac.nz>: > Hi All, I?d like to get feedback on this issue before we move on with > implementing. > > > > In short whether we should use DV_BOOLEAN to represent the result of a Lab > test as Positive/Negative. This particular test can have only two values > (well plus the null case of course). I suspect this wasn?t the purpose of > this data type in the first place and was for really no-brainer yes/no items > as you would expect in any computer program. But, as ever, clinical medicine > is wicked and makes me think out of the ?usual? good practice and explore > whether this might be an option?Perhaps this discussion will provide > guidance for others in the community as well. > > > > Secondly (assuming that we can use DV_BOOLEAN for such cases) in GUI not all > occurrences of Boolean will have labels as Yes/No?It can also be True/False, > Present/Absent, Positive/Negative etc. Moreover in difference language > translations they will surely be different. But in ADL no at code is given > for this data type; Yes and No is written implicitly within the definition > section. This means that we cannot set the Text in ontology section and then > have language translations. Has anyone come across such a requirement? If so > what?s your solution. > > > > Note that I currently model all such data items with DV_CODED_TEXT and had > no problems. But when I wanted to render radio buttons for Yes/No type items > instead of default combobox widget I either need a GUI directive (which we > try to avoid if possible) or set the data type to DV_BOOLEAN so that the > default widget would be radio button and we can use accordingly. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > -koray > > > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-technical mailing list > openEHR-technical at openehr.org > http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical > >
