Re: [Gnumed-devel] state of test results handling

[James Busser]

On 30-Mar-08, at 12:59 PM, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, James Busser wrote:
> > um... what is the symbol which, in the last screenshot, now appears
> > at the right margin within each result cell since I would have
> > thought these particular results might have been normal... are those
> > hierarchical "expand" triangles in order to show more information?
> > this would strike most people as unfamiliar...
>
> I think that its a hand holding a pen
> which to me suggests that there is something more to be seen

Liz seems correct as far as it seeming to be a hand holding a pen  
(see enlarged screenshot).

However as to what it *means* I suspect it means those labs have been  
reviewed (signed). I am still not sure what would be most useful, for  
most people, regarding how result "metadata" is best incorporated...

        ... lab-returned designators or flags (like abnormal)
        ... lab-returned additional data (like comments)
	... gnumed-side metadata (technically-abnormal, clinically  
significant, who signed, target range)

Are ellipses (the cluster of 3 periods …) both international and  
multilingual, in terms of communicating that "more follows" ?Would  
this be too visually small, or subtle, to incorporate?

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