April 13, 2020 meeting minutes ECE Project Group

April 13, 2020 meeting minutes ECE Project Group

 

 

Date

Monday 2020-04-13

Repeats 2nd Monday of every month

Time: 20:00 UTC 

 

Invitees

Bruce Goldberg
Former user (Deleted)
Jim Case
Yongsheng Gao
Phil Brown
Former user (Deleted)
Monica Harry
Penni Hernandez (Unlicensed)
Ed Cheetham
David Robinson
Rob Hausam
Robert McClure (Unlicensed)
Former user (Deleted)
stefan.schulz (Unlicensed)
Former user (Deleted)
Daniel Karlsson
Cathy Richardson 
Krista Lilly 
Nicola Ingram 
Jeff Pierson (Unlicensed) 
Former user (Deleted)



Apologies

 

 

 

 

General Comments

 

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Decisions

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Description

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Reminder to record call

1

Welcome and role call

Bruce Goldberg

 

 

3

Disorder due to disorder - due to vs explict statements in an axiom

Bruce Goldberg, Jim Case

  • Modeling complex statements with due to vs. explicit relationships

  • Due to complexity of determining exact nature of associations i.e. common pathological process, co-occurrence, causation, modeling templates for specific combined disorders may need to be created on an individual basis

 

3

Depositions

Bruce Goldberg

  • Modeling of depositions

    • 46595003 |Deposition (morphologic abnormality)| has a parent of 107669003 |Degenerative abnormality (morphologic abnormality)|

  • Move 46595003 |Deposition (morphologic abnormality)| from under 107669003 |Degenerative abnormality (morphologic abnormality)| to 49755003 |Morphologically abnormal structure (morphologic abnormality)|

  • For depositions that are also degenerative morphologies, model the deposition morphology with Deposition (morphologic abnormality) and Degenerative abnormality (morphologic abnormality) parents

    Bruce Goldberg to test and provide results for next EAG call

  • Consider renaming deposition morphologies as deposit morphologies

4

Retained foreign bodies events vs disorders

Bruce Goldberg

  • Should retained foreign bodies be modeled as events or disorders?

  • Retire existing disorder concepts

  • Retain event concepts

  • Create new disorder concepts of the type Disorder due to foreign body left in Body Structure

  • Add an after relationship to surgical procedure when appropriate so that concept is subsumed by 385486001 |Postoperative complication (disorder)|

Bruce Goldberg to prototype above

5

Exacerbation of X, X exacerbated by Y

Bruce Goldberg

  • Need final agreement to implement proposed model

  • Activate unapproved concept, 410660005 |Aggravated by (attribute)| under 47429007 |Associated with (attribute)| as a sibling of 246075003 |Causative agent (attribute)|

  • Obtain approval from MAG

  • Notify Yongsheng Gao and Peter Williams to incorporate into MRCM

6

Rheumatoid arthritis

Bruce Goldberg

  • New model for rheumatoid arthritis

  • urther discussion required as naming the systemic disorder as rheumatoid arthritis is confusing

Bruce Goldberg to review Singh K, Al-Sadawi M, Ortega RR, et al. Interstitial Lung Disease as the Initial Manifestation of Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. American Journal of Medical to determine what prompted the ordering of RF prior to articular symptoms.

8

Pregnancy/labor/delivery function observables

Bruce Goldberg

  • Proposal to inactivate these in favor of clinical findings

  • abled for a future call

9

Dupuytren disease and contracture

Bruce Goldberg

  • Proposed modeled for Dupuytren disease and Dupuytren contracture

  • Model as shown on attached graphic:

10

AOB, adjourn

ALL

  • AOB

Next call TBD

 


 

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