Existing Wording: DiagnosticOrder.supportingInformation - Additional clinical information about the patient or specimen that may

This information includes diagnosis, clinical findings and other observations.

Examples include reporting the amount of inspired carbon dioxide for blood

gasses, the point in the menstrual cycle for cervical pap tests, and other

conditions that influence test interpretations.

influence test interpretations.

Comment:

Mix up here. Should be amount of inspire O2.

However there is also collision here with ask at order entry questions which are stored as discrete observations and returned with the result. Same with the date of menstrual cycle. So there is some schizophrenia here. Or you are saying to enter discrete observations here. It is not clear. Should stay with ask at order entry for labs and not slide over to full narrative. If not you should confess there are two ways of doing this and explain when to do which. These free from narrative