Why are the terms in the openEHR terminology called rubrics? Does this word have a special meaning in the terminology world. It is commonly used to designate groups and in this case we have single terms.
Ognian Pishev
I am not sure where and how the use of ‘rubrics’ to describe the text aspect of a coded term but it has certainly been in use in the UK for over 20 years (READ codes).
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.41.5566&rep=rep1&type=pdf
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yes but a ‘term’ denotes a category, i.e. a group of real instances, extensionally. E.g. the rubric ‘insulin dependent diabetes mellitus’ denotes the category of people with IDDM, i.e. the thousands (maybe it is millions) of insulin-dependent diabetics in the world.
- thomas beale
Ognian,
in what situations do you see the term “rubric” used? Unfortunately and not surprisingly there is little agreement on the meaning of this term, e.g. “rubric” in classifications (often) refers to a class at some specific level of classification, in the EHR the term (often) refers to the heading of a narrative describing what’s clinically relevant, e.g. under the rubric “heart” you could find anything related to the cardiovascular system.
/Daniel Karlsson
2010-06-09 13:43, ognian.pishev skrev:
As Tom points out. It is used to define/represent a category. Words do
have meanings and a dictionary is the authoritative reference on that as
far as I know. 
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rubric
I believe that definition #5 applies here.
Cheers,
Tim