DECOR Information for Project: epSOS (epsos-)

Domain provides codes that qualify the ActEncounterClass (ENC)

A code or set of codes (e.g., for routine, emergency,) specifying the urgency under which the Act happened, can happen, is happening, is intended to happen, or is requested/demanded to happen.

Discussion: This attribute is used in orders to indicate the ordered priority, and in event documentation it indicates the actual priority used to perform the act. In definition mood it indicates the available priorities.

Contains the names (codes) for each of the states in the state-machine of the RIM Act class.

Describes the type of substance administration being performed.

Indicates the form in which the drug product should be administered.

This element only needs to be specified when (a) the form in which the drug is measured for dispensing differs from the form in which the drug is administered; and (b) the form in which the quantity of the administered drug being administered is not expressed as a discrete measured mass or volume. Usage:

The gender of a person used for adminstrative purposes (as opposed to clinical gender)

The type of document section. Possible values: review of systems, medical history, family history, microscopic findings, etc.

A value representing the specific kind of Entity the instance represents.

Examples: A medical building, a Doberman Pinscher, a blood collection tube, a tissue biopsy.

Rationale: For each Entity, the value for this attribute is drawn from one of several coding systems depending on the Entity classCode, such as living subjects (animal and plant taxonomies), chemical substance (e.g., IUPAC code), organizations, insurance company, government agency, hospital, park, lake, syringe, etc. It is possible that Entity.code may be so fine grained that it represents a single instance. An example is the CDC vaccine manufacturer code, modeled as a concept vocabulary, when in fact each concept refers to a single instance.

In the United States, federal standards for classifying data on ethnicity determine the categories used by federal agencies and exert a strong influence on categorization by state and local agencies and private sector organizations. The federal standards do not conceptually define ethnicity, and they recognize the absence of an anthropological or scientific basis for ethnicity classification. Instead, the federal standards acknowledge that ethnicity is a social-political construct in which an individual's own identification with a particular ethnicity is preferred to observer identification. The standards specify two minimum ethnicity categories: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino. The standards define a Hispanic or Latino as a person of "Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, South or Central America, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race." The standards stipulate that ethnicity data need not be limited to the two minimum categories, but any expansion must be collapsible to those categories. In addition, the standards stipulate that an individual can be Hispanic or Latino or can be Not Hispanic or Latino, but cannot be both.

Codes for the representation of the names of human languages.

A value representing the method of expression of the language.

Example: Expressed spoken, expressed written, expressed signed, received spoken, received written, received signed.

A value representing the level of proficiency in a language.

Example: Excellent, good, fair, poor.

The domestic partnership status of a person.

Example: Married, separated, divorced, widowed, common-law marriage.

Types of Material for EntityClass "MAT"