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Date and time

2021-06-21 20.00 UTC

Objectives

Discuss and make progress on these issues:

  • Inheres in vs. Direct site
  • Scale observables
  • Editorial Guide

Discussion items

See below.


ItemDescriptionOwnerNotesAction

1Welcome & apologies





2Conflicts of interest

  • None stated



3Minutes from previous meetingDaniel Karlsson



4Inheres in & Direct site

2021-06-21:

Clarification of use of the two attributes.

Slides

Discussion: clarification should go into SNOMED CT guidance, the redundancy can be considered confusing for users, still needs to be a way to represent non-sample-based "variants" of lab tests, such has NI blood glucose measurement.




5Scale Observables
  • Scale/score Observables for anesthesia and clinical medicine
  • The Anesthesia CRG has submitted a paper to the EAG describing some of the problems of SNOMED in relation to modeling of assessment scales (see Modelling of Assessment Scales in SNOMED CT.docx)
  • See attached presentation for discussion this date: "Clinical Scale Scores20210301"
  • Deliverables: 

    1) Anesthesia CRG will proceed with proposing FSN/PT for ASA scale scores as qualifier, including definitions of each value, and proceed with obtaining permission from ASA for publication

  • 2) Anesthesia CRG will proceed with proposing FSN/PT for Mallampati scale scores as qualifiers, including definitions of each value, and proceed with obtaining permission from authoritative source for publication

  • More complicated use case of Glasgow Coma Scale was discussed briefly to prepare for detailed discussion next meeting.

  • Deliverable:  3) Meeting attendees to consider special use case of supporting calculations for Glasgow Coma Scale Total Score from three Ordinal component scores for discussion next meeting

2021-04-19:

Assessment scale hierarchy requirements https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1b_vmIY7IFjfYuaXd6H-c5GxijEyaFj75wbvreZ4_fkA/edit?usp=sharing

Andrew Norton provided background to the use cases provided by the Anesthesia CRG.

A requirement to represent the scale points of the assessment scales when they correspond to findings, but question is who is responsible for the association between clinical findings in general and scale points. 

There are two use cases which are slightly different: (1) the requirement to be able to use SNOMED CT to encode contents of the EHR and then use that to "populate" assessment scale components, and (2) the requirement to be able to store and communicate results of application of the assessment scales per se using SNOMED CT concepts. Moving from (1) (i.e. a SNOMED CT encoded EHR) to (2) (SNOMED CT encoded assessment scale representation) is non-trivial. There is a discrepancy between the recording of clinical findings (more granular) and the recording of values for assessment instruments (discrete buckets). The challenge is matching the clinical findings to the appropriate value in the assessment. This is not (necessarily) something that is handled within SNOMED. However, assessment scales are also sometimes used as the primary documentation.

2021-05-17:

Some example existing scale observables were discussed in relation to the subsumption expected from any work done to define scale observables. E.g. the Apgar component observables are not subsumed by any observables related to heart rate, respiration, skin color etc. To contrast, pain score observables are subsumed by other pain observables. The group agreed that being able to group scale observables by what the scales assess is a desireable feature of any solution.

2021-06-21:

James R. Campbell made a presentation at the Anesthesia CRG call about representing assessment scale observables. A key missing piece is the representation of scale points (ordinals) beyond their scale value (e.g. 1, 2, 3, ... for GCS) to include the actual clinical meaning. For GCS, neurologists' input will be sought. Experimentation with the CRG include more complex scales will help produce a decision paper for the EAG.



6

Parameters (previously "Settables")

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The issue of representation of target observables has been raised again in a Jira ticket.

The question the group needs to answer is whether targets and observables need to be seperated or to be kept apart. In practice, is there a requirement to query for both observables and "settings" alternatively is there a risk in having targets and observations mixed up?

One solution would be to (minimally) add a primitive parent "setting observable" (or just "setting") to all targets, settings, parameters, etc. in the current observables hierarchy.

2020-09-21:

Suzanne Santamaria shared with the nutrition group, will share with Jim Case

2020-11-16:

Release of content postponed to July 2021.

2020-12-14:

If time permits, go through comments from Jim Case.

See this page

2021-02-08:

"Parameter" is a better name for the super concept of all observables determined by decision.

Proposed definition "A parameter is an entity whose value is determined by decision of an agent as opposed being observed in reality. Examples of settings are goals or targets, equipment settings, and treatment parameters"

Subtypes of | Parameter | will be added including Goal/Target, Device setting etc.

Reusing 252116004 | Observation parameter (observable entity) | might be risky as it might already be in use plus we could at the meeting not determine its meaning.

2021-04-19:

Agreement on separating "observed" observables from target observables (possibly calling those observables might be a misnomer). 

Implementation of the separation needs to be discussed. As proposed, the separation depends on there being primitive stated parents for non-parameter observables, but the more concepts are fully defined, the greater the chance of a fully defined observables subsuming a parameter. 

2021-05-17:

"Parameters" now in International daily build: https://dailybuild.ihtsdotools.org/?perspective=full&conceptId1=1156597009&edition=MAIN&release=&languages=en

1156597009 | Parameter (observable entity) | now has 129 concepts subsumed. The definition of Parameter was reviewed,

There is still an issue where fully defined Observable entities might subsume parameter observables. 



7Editorial Guide

review of existing Editorial Guide for Observables is due. Some pages seem dated. Comments to pages are done in a Google Doc herehttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1dfDd-K4hP425O_7poTA8roZ_fkAKQj0l458LGob1FBM/edit?usp=sharing

2020-12-14:

Templates for quality and process observables.

Particularly, the boundary between quality and process observables might need discussion (presentation). There is (at least) a potential for inconsistencies unless there are clear guidance on when to use quality and process patterns respectively as there 

Sarah Harry what about e.g. clotting time?

2021-01-18:

Comments from SNOMED staff to the EG Google Doc was discussed. Comments were added to the document. "PG agreement" as a comment in the document indicates that the project group agreed to the comment above.

2021-06-21:

Changes made in the document



8E2O (if time allows)Report

9Next meeting

Next meeting is 2021-08-02 20.00 UTC





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Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation Machine Learning and Glasgow Coma Scale.pptx 2021-Jun-17 by Daniel Karlsson
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