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"scope_statement": "This model owns the surgical sense of operation in registry entry vr.tr.operation-3, ACT / ACT.ACT: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body, including planned instances and their execution records.", "in_scope": [ "The identity and boundaries of one planned or performed surgical operation", "The operative target, indication and intended repair or disease-control result", "Incisional access, operative approach and intended tissue changes", "Operation-specific authorisation, preparation and accountable clinical roles", "The operative course, completion state and immediate postoperative handover" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Mathematical, computing, military and business senses of operation", "Surgery as a discipline, profession or institutional service", "The underlying disease or injury as an independently modelled condition", "Anaesthesia management as a separate clinical process linked to the operation", "Standalone non-incisional treatments and diagnostic investigations", "Long-term rehabilitation and the patient's complete care history" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The referent is a medical intervention on a living body, rather than an abstract operation or a postmortem dissection.", "The planned or performed intervention includes an incision made with instruments; a generic procedure label alone does not establish this.", "Its stated purpose includes repairing damage or arresting disease under this registry definition; purely diagnostic or cosmetic cases require a recorded boundary decision.", "The operative action directly addresses a bodily target; anaesthesia, imaging or preparation alone does not constitute the operation.", "It identifies a particular operative plan or event, with an accountable team and temporal boundary, rather than surgery in general." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Procedure identity", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Recorded procedure name; terminology system, code and version when available", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes the intervention from ambiguous labels and supports comparison between the plan and the performed procedure." }, { "name": "Operated subject", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Link to the patient or other living subject record", "why_it_matters": "Anchors the operation to the correct subject without duplicating the clinical record." }, { "name": "Operative target", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Anatomical structure, site, laterality and linked lesion where applicable", "why_it_matters": "Makes the intended location explicit and exposes discrepancies in operative documentation." }, { "name": "Indication and intended result", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked damage or disease; documented repair or disease-control objective", "why_it_matters": "Explains why the operation is proposed and what result its completion should be assessed against." }, { "name": "Operative approach", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Documented access route, incision and approach; planned and actual values recorded separately", "why_it_matters": "Establishes incisional scope and preserves changes made during execution." }, { "name": "Urgency", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Treating service's urgency category with its definition and assignment time", "why_it_matters": "Records the clinical timing constraint without assuming urgency labels have universal meanings." }, { "name": "Operation state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Proposed, scheduled, deferred, cancelled, underway, completed or stopped before intended completion", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a plan, cancellation or partial execution from being mistaken for a completed operation." }, { "name": "Authorisation status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Documented consent or other stated authority, scope, unresolved conditions and responsible reviewer", "why_it_matters": "Records the basis for proceeding while leaving validity determinations to authorised people." }, { "name": "Operative duration", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Minutes, with explicitly named start and end events", "why_it_matters": "Allows timing comparisons without conflating incision-to-closure time with time in the operating room." }, { "name": "Objective attainment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Not assessed, achieved, partly achieved, not achieved or uncertain; assessor and assessment time", "why_it_matters": "Separates procedural completion from achievement of the intended clinical result." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a documented intervention against the registry's surgical sense and flag unresolved boundary cases.", "Assemble a traceable view of the operative target, purpose, approach and responsible clinical team.", "Compare planned, authorised and performed scope and route discrepancies for clinical review.", "Track preparation evidence, unresolved prerequisites and decisions by authorised clinicians.", "Record operative changes, tissue or device dispositions and immediate handover requirements.", "Identify missing evidence and unanswered outcome questions without independently authorising or directing surgery." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "operative-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Operative identity and boundaries", "description": "Establishes what intervention is being represented and what counts as one operation.", "rationale": "The word operation is highly ambiguous, and one operative session can contain several procedures.", "layers": [ { "id": "surgical-sense", "name": "Surgical sense", "description": "Tests the intervention against the registry's incisional and therapeutic definition.", "findings": [ { "id": "incisional-therapeutic-fit", "name": "Incisional therapeutic fit", "description": "Record evidence for intervention on a living body, incisional access and a repair or disease-control purpose; retain ambiguity explicitly.", "questions": [ { "text": "What documented incision and intended repair or disease-control action make this an operation under vr.tr.operation-3?", "kind": "definition", "id": "incisional-therapeutic-fit-q01" }, { "text": "Does the case involve a diagnostic, cosmetic or non-incisional purpose that makes its inclusion uncertain?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "incisional-therapeutic-fit-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operative-event-boundary", "name": "Operative event boundary", "description": "Separates procedure types, planned instances, operative sessions and repeat interventions.", "findings": [ { "id": "one-operation-or-related-operations", "name": "One operation or related operations", "description": "Record the chosen event boundary and links to component procedures, stages and returns to the operating room.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which procedures belong to this operation, and what convention establishes that grouping?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "one-operation-or-related-operations-q01" }, { "text": "Is this a first intervention, a planned stage, a revision or an unplanned return linked to an earlier operation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "one-operation-or-related-operations-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "indication-target-and-intent", "name": "Indication, target and intent", "description": "Connects the reason for operating to a specific bodily target and intended result.", "rationale": "An operation cannot be interpreted from its procedure name alone; its purpose and anatomical scope determine what completion means.", "layers": [ { "id": "operative-indication", "name": "Operative indication", "description": "Captures the documented problem and the clinical rationale for intervention.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-reason-to-operate", "name": "Documented reason to operate", "description": "Link the operation to its recorded indication, uncertainty and timing rationale without generating a treatment recommendation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which damage or disease is this operation intended to address, and which clinical assessment supports that indication?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-reason-to-operate-q01" }, { "text": "What urgency and consequences of delay has the responsible clinician documented?", "kind": "action", "id": "documented-reason-to-operate-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "anatomical-and-therapeutic-scope", "name": "Anatomical and therapeutic scope", "description": "Defines the intended site and bodily change.", "findings": [ { "id": "target-and-intended-change", "name": "Target and intended change", "description": "Record the anatomical target, laterality where relevant, intended tissue action and operation-specific success criteria.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which structure, site and side are targeted, and how are multiple targets distinguished?", "kind": "definition", "id": "target-and-intended-change-q01" }, { "text": "What observable result would demonstrate the intended repair or disease-control objective, and when can it be assessed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "target-and-intended-change-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authority-and-operative-readiness", "name": "Authority and operative readiness", "description": "Records who may decide, what scope is authorised and what preparation evidence is available.", "rationale": "A scheduled operation is not automatically authorised or ready to begin, and an agent must preserve those distinctions.", "layers": [ { "id": "authorised-operative-scope", "name": "Authorised operative scope", "description": "Connects the proposed intervention to documented authority and accountable decision makers.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-and-scope-record", "name": "Authority and scope record", "description": "Capture the recorded authorisation basis, its limitations and the clinician responsible for resolving discrepancies.", "questions": [ { "text": "What consent or other stated authority covers this 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"readiness-evidence-and-unresolved-conditions-q01" }, { "text": "Which unresolved conditions require a documented clinician decision before proceeding?", "kind": "action", "id": "readiness-evidence-and-unresolved-conditions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operative-course-and-material-disposition", "name": "Operative course and material disposition", "description": "Represents the intervention actually performed and the disposition of tissue and operative materials.", "rationale": "The performed operation can depart from its plan, and resulting tissue changes, specimens and devices affect subsequent care.", "layers": [ { "id": "performed-intervention", "name": "Performed intervention", "description": "Preserves actual access, operative actions and departures from the planned scope.", "findings": [ { "id": "actual-course-and-deviations", "name": "Actual course and deviations", "description": "Record the actual approach, significant operative observations, changes in scope and the 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"provenance", "id": "operative-material-accountability-q01" }, { "text": "Which implants, drains, packing or other materials remain, and what follow-up responsibility is documented for each?", "kind": "action", "id": "operative-material-accountability-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "completion-outcomes-and-handover", "name": "Completion, outcomes and handover", "description": "Separates the end of operative activity from objective attainment and ongoing care obligations.", "rationale": "An operation can end without achieving its objective, and clinically relevant consequences may remain unresolved at handover.", "layers": [ { "id": "completion-and-result", "name": "Completion and result", "description": "Captures the terminal operative state and the evidence available for judging its result.", "findings": [ { "id": "completion-versus-objective-attainment", "name": "Completion versus objective attainment", "description": "Record whether the intended intervention was completed and 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Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a operation, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a operation, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a operation is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a operation, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a operation, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a operation is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a operation sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a operation, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a operation, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a operation is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a operation from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a operation, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a operation, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a operation is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a operation passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a operation between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a operation, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a operation, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a operation is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a operation, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a operation is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a operation, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a operation, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a operation is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a operation proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a operation, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a operation and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a operation, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a operation, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a operation is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a operation consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a operation takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a operation, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a operation, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a operation is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What operation is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of operation are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is operation operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of operation and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of operation?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as operation?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a operation came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a operation and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a operation, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a operation, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a operation is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a operation is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a operation, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a operation, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a operation is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }