Revised term request: clinical picture

[CDowland]

IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OGMS_0000016

Term label: clinical picture

Current textual definition: A representation of clinically significant bodily components, dispositions, and/or bodily processes of a human being that is inferred from relevant clinical findings.

Proposed textual definition: A representation of clinically significant bodily components, dispositions, or bodily processes of a human being that is inferred from relevant clinical findings, perhaps in combination with diagnoses.

Current definition source: http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf

Proposed definition sources (one in addition to current one):
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13326-016-0098-5

Current term editor: Albert Goldfain

Proposed term editor: Albert Goldfain [no change requested]

Current contributors: [None]

Proposed contributors: William R. Hogan; Mathias Brochhausen; S. Clint Dowland

Notes: The proposed definition combines the revisions suggested in "Diagnosis, misdiagnosis, lucky guess, hearsay, and more: an ontological analysis" (2016), by Hogan and Ceusters, with other revisions that OGMS has made since that paper was published.

The proposed definition allows for a combination of clinical findings and diagnoses to be that from which a clinical picture is inferred.

I'm also attaching a file with the RTR as a spreadsheet.

Revised term request - clinical picture.xlsx

[BAevermann]

Proposed textual definition: A representation of clinically significant bodily components, dispositions, or bodily processes of a human being that is inferred from relevant clinical findings in combination with diagnoses.

[CDowland]

While I understand the point made yesterday about why to remove the "perhaps," does this go too far in the other direction? The reason for the "perhaps" was that the clinical picture in some cases is inferred from clinical findings alone, while in others it is inferred from a combination of clinical findings and diagnoses. Simply dropping the "perhaps" and making no other changes seems to result in a definition according to which diagnoses must be among those things from which the clinical picture is inferred, but I'm guessing that's not the intended meaning.

[addiehl]

The word "sometimes" would be a better choice than "perhaps". Furthermore, if some clinical picture include diagnoses and others do not, and this is an important distinction, then it is better to create two explicit child terms for 'clinical picture', 'clinical picture including diagnosis' and 'clinical picture not including diagnosis' (or something similar), rather than attempt to capture both possibilities within a single term.

Alex