Should ATTESTATION.reason datatype really be DV_TEXT or rather DV_CODED
Hi! Here comes yet another possibly stupid question... Do we ever want the attribute ATTESTATION.reason to be a DV_TEXT instead of a DV_CODED_TEXT? Is this a possible improvement for the specification (common IM rev 2.1.1 from release 1.0.2) or is there an intention behind being that liberal? The spec says the value for ATTESTATION.reason should come from the terminology group "attestation reason". A less important sidetrack: Is the use of the more verbose DV_CODED_TEXT instead of just CODE_PHRASE for fields/methods like VERSION.lifecycle_state and AUDIT_DETAILS.change_type there for human readability reasons or what is the purpose? Are end users really supposed to see the DV_TEXT.value of those? I guess aplication logic and GUIs are better off trying to use the embedded CODE_PHRASE than relying on the possibly language dependent DV_TEXT.value for those fields/methods. Best regards, Erik Sundvall erik.sundvall@liu.se http://www.imt.liu.se/~erisu/ Tel: +46-13-286733 _______________________________________________ openEHR-technical mailing list openEHR-technical@openehr.org http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical