Approval of minutes from April 2019 Business meeting

Agenda changes

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•  Approval of minutes
• Agenda change approved

A proposal to replace many of the diet finding terms (e.g. high fat diet) with regime/therapy concepts has run into an obstacle with the current usage within the UKTC where these terms originated. In consultation with the UKTC, it has been proposed that we:

• continue with the addition of valid diet regimes (current diet findings are being reviewed for validity
• inactivate and replace diet findings with more precise terming (e.g. Follows X diet regime (finding)) to allow for graceful evolution and traceability

As discussed in KL. Need a list of proposed description types to send to tech services for implementation. Guidance on use will need to be developed. Current use cases to consider are:

• near synonyms - these can be either "broader than" terms or non-semantically equivalent, but related terms (e.g. vaccination (procedure) vs. immunization (a process following vaccination or administration of immunoglobulin)
• hypernyms
• search terms - colloquial terms
• "Patient-friendly" or consumer terminology
• abbreviations/truncations

Issues within our current synonyms was identified in an AMIA paper in 2003:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1480077/pdf/amia2003_0949.pdf