Yes you're right. We need to allow snomed units there etc. but we use quantity 
for more than openehr does, so I thought you might be able to just have ucum. 
So you might as well copy FHIR then

Grahame

> On 18 May 2016, at 7:22 PM, Ian McNicoll <i...@freshehr.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Grahame,
> 
> For the use case raised, I agree, but there other considerations e.g. Dose 
> units and other non-UCUM code use - in the UK there is a desire to use SNOMED 
> terms for dose units.
> 
> FHIR has human + code + system for quantity units, I think?
> 
> Ian
> 
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>> On 18 May 2016 at 10:11, Grahame Grieve <graha...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> That's overkill - just have two fields, human and computable units.
>> 
>> Grahame
>> 
>>> On 18 May 2016, at 7:05 PM, Daniel Karlsson <daniel.karls...@liu.se> wrote:
>>> 
>>> So, right now the DV_QUANTITY.units is a String, perhaps it should be 
>>> DV_CODED_TEXT?
>>> 
>>> /Daniel
>>> 
>>>> On 2016-05-18 10:25, Bakke, Silje Ljosland wrote:
>>>> This imposes a larger implementation burden on the systems who will have 
>>>> to be able to read UCUM codes and show the corresponding symbol instead of 
>>>> the code, which in many cases is not readable to clinicians.
>>> 
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