Table 2

Mapping of the Data Types

openEHR Data Type

COSMIC Tool Type

Comments


DV_BOOLEAN

checkbox

DV_STATE

NONE

DV_IDENTIFIER

Text

DV_COUNT

Numeric

DV_INTERVAL

NONE

DV_PROPORTION

NONE

DV_ORDINAL

Fixed value list

Missing ordinal value; sorted on the integer

DV_QUANTITY

Numeric

DV_TEXT

Text

Missing regular expression support

DV_CODED_TEXT

Fixed value list

Partially through fixed values list

DV_PARAGRAPH

NONE

DV_DATE

Date and Time

Missing ISO pattern

DV_DATETIME

Date and Time

Missing ISO pattern

DV_TIME

Date and Time

Missing ISO pattern

DV_DURATION

NONE

DV_MULTIMEDIA

NONE

DV_PARSABLE

NONE


Chen et al. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2009 9:33   doi:10.1186/1472-6947-9-33

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