Allowing free Text for Death Reason

[burke (Burke Mamlin)]

@angshuonline

Like Darius mentioned, it will require forking OpenMRS Core, and also changing Bahmni. The effort is not small, and unlikely to find a place easily in the product - which means that the effort of maintenance will be large!

Why is this so large?

• Add person.caused_of_death_non_coded varchar(255) as we did for Orders’ order reason
• In Person, add getCauseOfDeathNonCoded() and setCauseOfDeathNonCode(String).

That’s not a big PR is it?

Optionally…

• Set Person.CAUSE_OF_DEATH_NON_CODED to “non coded” concept (I’m assuming we have this in a global property)
• Add a convenience method like setCauseOfDeath(String) that would automatically set the coded value to Person.CAUSE_OF_DEATH_NON_CODED
• Consider a convenience method like isCauseOfDeathCoded() to avoid forcing a client to know about Person.CAUSE_OF_DEATH_NON_CODED