NTR 'healthcare outcome'

[dillerm]

Label: healthcare outcome

Definition: An information content entity about a patient's health status or condition resulting from healthcare interventions, treatments, or services.

Contributors: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9990-8331, https://orcid.org/0009-0003-7246-1252

[wdduncan]

We may want to consider a label like healthcare report outcome or healthcare finding to make it clear that the class is a type of information as opposed for some other outcome. For example, an infection might be the "outcome" of a surgical procedure.

Also, need to consider whether patient reported outcome should be a subclass.

[dillerm]

We would prefer to change the label to 'healthcare outcome report', similar to what you proposed.

[wdduncan]

A use case to consider:

There are agencies that hire social workers to develop care/treatment plans for people with severe health conditions, e.g., setting up transportation services for people with traumatic brain injuries. The social workers are not necessarily medically trained nor would they be "medical professionals" in many senses of the term. However, they do collect health care information, but this information is not and the "specified output of a health care process assay or diagnostic process" (see definition for clinical data item).

Would such information collected by the social workers be an "healthcare outcome report"?

[dillerm]

I think this use case wouldn't affect the proposed definition much, unless you're seeing something I'm not. However, it would be good to change 'patient' in the original proposal to 'person' (or 'organism') since I assume the social worker use case wouldn't be dealing with a patient.

[wdduncan]

@dillerm I think your "eyesight" is better mine :)

A few thoughts:

• I agree we should change 'patient' to 'person'.
• Should we make the parent class to be 'data item' instead of ICE?
• I think the current proposed definition would have patient reported outcome as a child. Right?

What do you think @addiehl ?

[dillerm]

I'm thinking that this class would be a sibling of 'patient-reported outcome' since that class isn't always about healthcare encounters.

[addiehl]

I agree that it should be a sibling.