From: owner-mnm@lists.hl7.org on behalf of Gunther Schadow
[gunther@aurora.regenstrief.org]
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 4:33 PM
To: mnm@lists.hl7.org
Cc: Linda Quade; Bob Dolin; Sandy Boyer
Subject: RIM PROPOSAL: Add attribute Act.title

Hi, Abdul-Malik said that we could issue this proposal through the email list without a cover sheet and spread sheet.

ADD ATTRIBUTE Act.title : ST

<definition>
A word or phrase by which an Act may be known among people.

Example: name of a research study (e.g. "Scandinavian Simvastatin Study"), name of a court case (e.g. "Brown v. Board of Education"), name of another kind of work project or operation. For acts representing documents, this is the title of the document.

Discussion: This is not a formal identifier but rather a 
human-recognizable common name.
</definition>

This proposal is being put forth jointly by the Technical Committees RCRIM and ORD and SDTC.

Rationale: in the past one had to use Act.code.originalText to place a document title and it wasn't clear whether a given Act.code.orginalText really is supposed to be a title. Use case for titles is (obviously) document titles but also project names such as required for research studies.

thanks for the consideration,
-Gunther

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Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D.                    gschadow@regenstrief.org
Medical Information Scientist      Regenstrief Institute for Health Care
Adjunct Assistant Professor        Indiana University School of Medicine
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