Details:
The Signals Clinical Information Design includes Entities, measurement types and associated attributes. A measurement attribute can be assigned to any number of measurement types, as long as it's used in the same data type context, such as Date. Each measurement attribute has a Description property and a Type property, in addition to name.
The intention is to use attribute values to describe your measurement types (and any Entity that a particular measurement type might be linked to). Entities can have their own attributes (if required) but are not mandatory as they are for a measurement type. Entities can exist independently of any attributes being added to them but must contain an ID if they are to be linked to a measurement type.
Can I reuse a measurement attribute and change its name or description to information that is more meaningful to a measurement type that it is being associated to?
Solution:
No. Note that when several measurement types have an attribute such as "Other", this is a single attribute. If you change this attribute from "Other" to something else like "Other2", all of the measurement types (that contain the original ‘other’ attribute) will see this change. It would be advised to create an additional measurement attribute called ‘Other2’ and link that to specific measurement types.
When defining measurement attributes for your measurement type, if you try to create one that already exists, then the system will not create a new one and instead will use the pre-existing one, which may already be associated with one or more measurement types. If you want a single attribute such as "Other" to be used across measurement types, then it is best to give it a generic Description, such as "placeholder for random observations". An alternative is to create a different measurement attribute for each measurement type, such as AE and DM measurement types.
An advantage of applying a single attribute to many measurement types is that your data comparisons and searches based on attribute values will include data belonging to your multiple measurement types.
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