2016-08-22 Editorial Advisory Group Conference Call

• Approve minutes from 06/27/2016
  
  

Are numeric ranges separated by dash, em-dash, or "to", or "from"?

e.g. |128131000119102|History of low birth weight status, 2-2.5kg (situation).
Is there supposed to be a space between the number and the unit (e.g. 2mg or 2 mg)?

Existing content does not use a space, but use of a space has been standard editorial policy.

Should we use a reference such as AMA or Chicago Manual of Style (and there are probably others) to provide guidance?

Adding diagnostic imaging of multiple body sites and procedures

Examples:

Ultrasonography of abdomen and ultrasonography of pelvis with transrectal ultrasonography (procedure)

Ultrasonography of pelvis and obstetric ultrasonography with transvaginal ultrasonography (procedure)

Ultrasonography of knee and doppler ultrasonography of vein of lower limb (procedure)

Summary of previous discussion: (see 2016-01-22 Editorial AG Conference Call)

• Current FSN naming conventions result in "non-user-friendly" descriptions. Creation of another description without the semantic tag adds no value
• Many existing FSNs would be ambiguous without the addition of the semantic tag.
• Users often do not request "preferred terms" so rely on editors to provide appropriate descriptions.
• Historically, many FSNs were glorified preferred terms
• This is an issue that only affects English versions as translation provide terms of use in their languages
• Challenge to editors is when to create a different preferred term if the FSN term is not user-friendly.
• This has an impact on acceptance of word order variants as preferred terms.

Assumptions:

• Semantic tags provide value in disambiguating concepts in different hierarchies with the same description (e.g Swab (physical object) vs. Swab (specimen))
• Current FSN naming conventions do not always provide user friendly descriptions, so duplication of these descriptions adds no value.

• Consensus on options: 1) require matching description (SCA give error) or 2) matching description optional (SCA gives warning)
• Bruce Goldberg To take this naming issue back to the ECE for discussion and recommendation.

Space Actions

We are meeting for a full day in New Zealand. Need substantive topics to move forward.

• Solicit additional agenda topics for Face-to-face meeting

JCA is traveling Sept 10-23. Meeting scheduled for Sept 26