Revised term request: diagnostic process

[CDowland]

IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OGMS_0000104

Term label: diagnostic process

Current textual definition: A health care process that involves the interpretation of a clinical picture from a given patient (input) and the assertion to the effect that the patient has a disease, disorder, or syndrome of a certain type, or none of these (output).

Proposed textual definition: A health care process that has as input (1) a clinical picture of a given patient and (2) an aggregate of representations of at least one type of disease and at least one type of phenotype whose instances are associated with instances of that disease, and has as output an assertion to the effect that the patient has a disease, disorder, or syndrome of a certain type, or none of these.

Current definition source: http://groups.google.com/group/ogms-discuss/browse_thread/thread/2a7008f311fac766/e7de486c94dfd82e

Proposed definition sources (one in addition to current one):
http://groups.google.com/group/ogms-discuss/browse_thread/thread/2a7008f311fac766/e7de486c94dfd82e
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 requires representations, such as cognitive representations borne by physicians, and thereby avoids the implication that such processes as lucky guessing by laypersons or coincidentally correct predicting by alleged soothsayers can count as diagnostic processes.

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

Revised term request - diagnostic process.xlsx

[BAevermann]

Proposed textual definition: A health care process that has as input (1) a clinical picture of a given patient and (2) an aggregate of representations of characteristics of a disease whose instances are associated with instances of that disease, and has as output an assertion to the effect that the patient has a disease, disorder, or syndrome of a certain type, or none of these.

[BAevermann]

Add to defintion:: Comparing to knowledge base / reference to arrive at final diagnosis