[Gnumed-devel] Measurements - adding and abbreviations

[Jim Busser]

Any ideas about when and how to be able to add in "objective" sOap notes things 
like

        weight
        blood pressure

??

Also, I notice that the measurement that is abbreviated as "RR" could be any of

        "respiratory rate"
        "blood pressure measured with a specific sphygmomanometer"
        "relative risk"

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medical_abbreviations:_R

… any idea how blood pressure came to be abbreviated "RR"? In idiosyncratic 
North America, we measure blood pressure in mmHg (no doubt using different 
devices than in Europe) and we abbreviate it

        BP
        --> can this be added to "base" GNUmed?

and for respiratory rate we use

        RR
        --> how to handle in GNUmed?
        --> use instead BF for "breath frequency"?

BTW here are some links to other abbreviations

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medical_abbreviations
        http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/appendixb.html
        
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/publications/specialist-guides/medical-conditions/common-abbreviations/

-- Jim