CIMI_Clinical.Assertion

Class Assertion

Documentation:

An assertion is used to express findings such as 'patient has diabetes' or 'patient has high blood pressure' that typically indicate whether a patient is part of a specific cohort or set whose members share the characteristic and where the implied value is 'in-set' or 'not-in-set'. It is a finding about a subject that is NOT expressed in the form of a measureable-entity=measurement-value pair (e.g., systolic blood pressure = 120 mmHg). The latter is represented using the EvaluationResult class. Note that EvaluationResults (e.g., measureable entity: eye color, measurement value: blue) can sometimes be expressed as assertions and vice versa (e.g., set of people with blue eye color).

Ancestors:

• Locatable
• • StatementTopic
• • • FindingTopic
• • • • Assertion

Descendants:

• AdverseReaction,
• AdverseSensitivityToSubstance,
• BradenScaleAssessmentResult,
• DetailedAssertion,
• FindingSiteAssertion,
• Tunneling,
• Undermining,
• WoundAssertion,
• WoundExudate

Property Summary

Properties

Property Name	Type and Description	Existence	Cardinality
dateAsserted	TemporalValue Date and time the health problem was diagnosed. Added for Public Health Reporting Initiative, 10/5/2012.	0..1	N/A
verificationStatus	Concept The state of knowledge concerning the presence of a putative condition; e.g., confirmed, refuted, provisional, suspected.	0..1	N/A
findingMethod	List<Concept> The means by which a clinical finding is determined.	0..1	0..*
clinicalStatus	Concept The physiological state of the condition with respect to whether it is actually of concern. Values may typically include: Active, Relapse, Remission, Resolved, Confirmed, Ruled out, Unknown.	0..1	N/A

Properties inherited from class FindingTopic

result, description, multimedia, interpretation

Properties inherited from class StatementTopic

key

Properties inherited from class Locatable

archetype_node_id, name, archetype_details