Re: [BIONT-DSE] Inclusion versus exclusion criteria

2007-09-12 Thread Chintan Patel
Kashyap, Vipul wrote: I guess the issue then becomes for which data items/decision criteria is negation explicitly asserted (MRSA) vs it needs to be inferred (drugs) Also, is it the case that one can make this statement about all labs without loss of generality? Or can this be said only in

Re: [BIONT-DSE] Inclusion versus exclusion criteria

2007-09-11 Thread Chintan Patel
Hi Alan, Regarding negation of exclusion criteria, it is interesting that you mention open versus closed world reasoning. We have found that depending on the underlying clinical data being queried, we might need to choose between open and closed world reasoning. For example, in pharmacy