Question: Act-relationship for Pathology Dissection

May 28, 2013

Question Pathology resident performs a gross dissection examination of the tissue submitted from a surgical procedure performed by a doctor to remove a patient’s gallbladder.

What is the ActRelationship?

Answer

Well, that’s kind of difficult. If I was doing this for real, I’d ask a lot of questions, but here’s a tentative outline:

  • Pathology Resident (role/entity)
  • performs (Participation type = performs)  
  • a gross dissection examination (Procedure [1])
  • of the tissue (role/entity participating as subject or specimen)
  • submitted (act-relationship from specimen role, typeCode =product)  
  • from a surgical procedure (Procedure [2])
  • performed by a doctor (performer to procedure [2])
  • to remove a patient’s (subject of procedure [2])
  • gallbladder (targetSiteCode of procedure [2])

That shouldn’t be taken as final. Some variations of this are possible, depending on the answer to the questions. (e.g. I swept the submission under the carpet in this outline. I don’t know whether the act of submission is interesting and/or relevant or not)