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[DermNet](https://dermnetnz.org/topics/seborrhoeic-dermatitis)", "Record whether scaling is confined to the scalp or accompanies facial, ear or trunk lesions; additional sites require a linked assessment for a broader condition. [DermNet](https://dermnetnz.org/topics/seborrhoeic-dermatitis)", "Check for thick plaques, patchy hair loss or a rash associated with hair products; these observations challenge a simple dandruff interpretation and warrant assessment of alternatives. 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DermNet describes dandruff as an uninflamed scalp form of seborrhoeic dermatitis. [DermNet](https://dermnetnz.org/topics/seborrhoeic-dermatitis)", "questions": [ { "text": "Does dandruff here mean an assessed scalp condition or the person's description of visible flakes?", "kind": "definition", "id": "working-clinical-sense-q01" }, { "text": "Who applied the label, when, and using which definition or examination?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "working-clinical-sense-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "neighbouring-scalp-conditions", "name": "Neighbouring scalp conditions", "description": "Capture observations that support or challenge the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "boundary-changing-observations", "name": "Boundary-changing observations", "description": "Retain inflammation, plaques, hair changes, extra-scalp lesions and product-associated rash as reasons to consider a neighbouring condition rather than silently broadening this model.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed features challenge uncomplicated dandruff, and which alternatives remain unresolved?", "kind": 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"kind": "provenance", "id": "recurrence-pattern-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "washing-and-product-context", "name": "Washing and product context", "description": "Record scalp exposures that may affect appearance, comfort or interpretation.", "findings": [ { "id": "reported-flare-associations", "name": "Reported flare associations", "description": "Track changes in washing, shampoos, dyes, styling products and other reported circumstances as candidate associations, without assigning an individual cause.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which routine or product changes preceded worsening or improvement, and by how long?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "reported-flare-associations-q01" }, { "text": "Does the timing suggest a product reaction or residue that needs assessment beyond dandruff?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "reported-flare-associations-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "dandruff-care-and-response", "name": "Dandruff care and response", "description": "Connect a defined care trial with actual 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[NHS](https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/dandruff/)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which product and formulation were used, with what frequency, scalp contact time and duration?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "product-and-use-record-q01" }, { "text": "Which current label or professional recommendation establishes appropriate use for this person?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "product-and-use-record-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "benefit-and-tolerability", "name": "Benefit and tolerability", "description": "Assess change against baseline while accounting for exposure and adverse effects.", "findings": [ { "id": "interpretable-care-outcome", "name": "Interpretable care outcome", "description": "Compare scale, itch and tolerability at a planned review; retain missed applications and simultaneous product changes as limits on interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What changed in scale and itch relative to baseline, and were observation conditions comparable?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "interpretable-care-outcome-q01" }, { "text": "Does the observed benefit, irritation or uncertain exposure support continuing, reviewing instructions or seeking professional reassessment?", "kind": "action", "id": "interpretable-care-outcome-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "daily-burden-and-reassessment", "name": "Daily burden and reassessment", "description": "Connect dandruff observations to personal goals and decisions about further assessment.", "rationale": "Visible shedding can matter independently of itch, while persistent or atypical symptoms may require a different care pathway.", "layers": [ { "id": "visible-shedding-and-care-burden", "name": "Visible shedding and care burden", "description": "Record what the person wants to improve and what care is practical.", "findings": [ { "id": "person-defined-improvement", "name": "Person-defined improvement", "description": "Capture priorities such as less visible shedding or less itch alongside the cost, time and hair-care compatibility of the routine.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which consequence of dandruff matters most to the person, and what change would they consider worthwhile?", "kind": "definition", "id": "person-defined-improvement-q01" }, { "text": "Which aspects of the care routine are difficult to maintain with their usual washing and styling practices?", "kind": "action", "id": "person-defined-improvement-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "reassessment-triggers", "name": "Reassessment triggers", "description": "Make reasons for professional review explicit.", "findings": [ { "id": "persistent-or-atypical-presentation", "name": "Persistent or atypical presentation", "description": "NHS advice supports medical review when dandruff persists after a month of anti-dandruff shampoo use, is severe, or accompanies marked itch, redness or swelling. Store the applicable review advice and observed trigger. 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"stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a dandruff 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 dandruff 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 dandruff, 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 dandruff, by which method, and when was it true?", 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"method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a dandruff 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 dandruff 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 dandruff between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a dandruff, 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 dandruff, 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 dandruff 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 dandruff, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a dandruff is 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"content-and-format-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a dandruff is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a dandruff and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a dandruff, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a dandruff, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a dandruff is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "subject-and-method", "name": "Subject matter and method", "description": "What dandruff studies and how it establishes anything.", "rationale": "A field is identified by its questions and its methods, and those are what distinguish it from the fields next to it.", "layers": [ { "id": "subject", "name": "Subject matter", "description": "The questions it takes as its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "subject-record", "name": "Questions and objects of study", "description": "What it is about, stated so a neighbouring field can be told apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "subject-record-q01", "text": "What questions and objects does dandruff take as its own?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "subject-record-q02", "text": "Which questions does it share with a neighbouring field, and who claims them?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "method", "name": "Method and evidence", "description": "How claims are established and what counts as evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "method-record", "name": "Methods and standards of evidence", "description": "The methods used and what they are taken to establish.", "questions": [ { "id": "method-record-q01", "text": "By what methods does dandruff establish claims, and what counts as sufficient evidence?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "method-record-q02", "text": "What kind of claim can this field not settle, and where should an agent look instead?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "institutions-and-classification", "name": "Institutions and classification", "description": "Where dandruff is practised and how catalogues place it.", "rationale": "The institutional footprint is the evidence that a field exists as a 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dandruff, under what codes?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "classification-record-q02", "text": "Where do those schemes disagree about its scope?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a dandruff 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 dandruff and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a dandruff, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", 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