Class: Intervention

comment "maybe under 'Interacting' ? It is coded, whereas 'specific_procedures' is not. How is the 1:* cardinality from episode of care to patient treatment dealt with in DCO? CHOP codes? ICD9 CM General diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and measurements (e.g. infection control intervention). A subclass could be 'specific procedure' look on http://bioportal.bioontology.org/search/fetch_results NCIActivity or measure that produces an effect or that is intended to alter the course of a disease in patient or population. This is a general term encompassing medical, social, behavioral, environmental and other acts that can have preventive and/or therapy. OBI --- an intervention design is a study design in which treatments (perturbations or intervention) defined as a combination of values taken by independant variable manipulated by the experimentalists are applied to the recruited subjects assigned (possibly by applying specific methods) to treatment groups. The specificity of intervention design is the fact that independent variables are being manipulated and a response of the biological system is evaluated via response variables as monitored by possibly a series of assays. See http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=13835085 for examples: hemodialysis, gastroscopy" ()
label "intervention" ()

http://purl.org/imbi/dco/dco#Intervention