Class BASE-RULE

Parent class: Rule-entity

Subclasses:

Documentation: "A base rule is the smallest unit rule, the base case for this recursive modeling of rules. Base rules consist of a SITUATION (which can be recursive) and whether that SITUATION must be TRUE or NOT TRUE for this BASE-RULE to be satisfied."

Template Slots
Slot name Documentation Type Allowed Values/Classes Cardinality Default
situation-p "Whether this situation is TRUE to satisfy this BASE-RULE, or FALSE. e.g., value of this slot is FALSE if rule is 'Patient does not have SITUATION.'" SYMBOL TRUE FALSE 0:1  
situation "Points to the situation/state/event that is the substance of this BASE-RULE." Instance Situation 1:*  
description-of-rule "Text description of this rule." STRING   0:1  
rule-name "An English string naming this criterion." STRING   0:1  
term-information "Pointer to a UMLS preferred term or terms, if available, that capture the major clinical concepts in this data class (e.g, diabetes mellitus)." Instance Term-information 1:*  
protocol-changes   Instance Protocol-change    
roles "Tells which class and slot will take instances of this class depending on the role of the instance. The format is (role OWNER-CLASS |owner-slot|) e.g., if this class is DATE and the instance's role is recruitment-start-date, (recruitment-start-date RECRUITMENT |start-date|) tells us that this instance of date should be the value of the slot |start-date| in an instance of class RECRUITMENT." SYMBOL   0:1  

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