prophylactic treatment

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Hi,

A question that may warrant clarification of the treatment class. 
OGMS:treatment is defined as "A processual entity whose completion is 
hypothesized (by a healthcare provider) to alleviate the signs and symptoms 
associated with a disorder"

 I would like to talk about prophylactic treatment, in which case no disorder has happened (yet). Specifically in my case , administration of antibiotics to an organism prior to infection. So while we still want to alleviate signs and symptoms, those are hypothetical future pointing events. Does that still fit within the treatment definition as intended in OGMS?

Thanks,
Melanie

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mcour...@gmail.com on 24 Aug 2011 at 10:50

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There has been discussion of this on the mailing-list - see 
http://groups.google.com/group/ogms-discuss/browse_thread/thread/6ba9fee245bbbe5
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For the purpose of this ticket, the following excerpt from Albert answers the 
question: "In BFO terms, I think what is going on is that the 
prophylactic/prevention process P1 cannot co-occur with (or negatively 
regulates) a process P2 in which a material entity M becomes a disorder.  But 
because M is not yet a disorder (has not yet reached the threshold of clinical 
significance), I think it would be confusing to call it a treatment."
(others have shared the view that prophylaxis is not a treatment)

Would it be possible to add this to the treatment class, maybe as an editor 
note? Once this is done I think this ticket can be closed.

I will request a class "prophylaxis" in a distinct ticket.

Thanks,
Melanie

Original comment by mcour...@gmail.com on 25 Aug 2011 at 4:18

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This issue has been superseded by Issue 66

Original comment by albertgo...@gmail.com on 20 Sep 2011 at 4:58

• Changed state: Fixed