How does one refer to an organism in a microbiology report?
by Matthew ~ December 31st, 1969. Filed under: News.As the useful Resources page of HL7 Australia makes clear:
At first site the RIM is quite simple. The RIM backbone has just five core classes and a number of permitted relationships between them.In HL7 V3, every happening is an Act, which is analogous to a verb in English. Each Act may have any number of Participations, in Roles, played by Entities. These are analogous to nouns. Each Act may also be related to other Acts, via Act-Relationships.Act, Role and Entity classes also have a number of specialisations. For example, Entity has a specialisation called Living Subject, which itself has a specialisation called Person. Person inherits the attributes of both Entity and Living Subject.
Organism, too, is a specialization of Entity, we might reasonably suppose. Thus an organism is not a Role, not a Participation, not a Relationship, and also, we presume, not an Act. That an organism is an Entity is [...]
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