Table 2.
Available condition classes in FIBER
| Condition class | Initialization with |
|
|---|---|---|
| Description (text) | Clinical codes | |
| Diagnosis | ✓ | ✓ |
| Procedure | ✓ | ✓ |
| Measurement (procedure) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vital sign (measurement) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Material | ✓ | ✓ |
| Drug (material) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Encounter | ✓ | – |
| Metadata | ✓ | – |
| Laboratory value | ✓ | ✓a |
| Patient | ✓ | – |
Note: Some conditions can only be created from short descriptions, for example, LabValue(“GLUCOSE”), others also from standardized clinical coding scheme like ICD-9, for example, Procedure(code=“35.0”, context= “ICD-9”). The condition class names in brackets indicate their parent condition class.
a
Standardized codes like LOINC can be integrated into the FIBER framework but have not been applied in the current use case.