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chain.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the tympanic membrane of an individual ear, including its anatomical regions, tissue continuity, position, mobility, repair state, and interfaces with adjacent structures or devices, while distinguishing observed membrane findings from inferred causes.", "in_scope": [ "Identity, laterality, anatomical boundaries, and visibility of the tympanic membrane", "Pars tensa, pars flaccida, attachment landmarks, and localised membrane findings", "Membrane continuity, perforations, scars, grafts, and healing", "Membrane position, deformation, and evidence about mobility", "Observation quality and membrane-specific constraints on assessment or intervention" ], "out_of_scope": [ "External ear canal anatomy and canal disorders beyond their effect on membrane access or visibility", "Middle-ear cavity contents, infection, and pressure regulation as independently modelled conditions", "Ossicular-chain structure and disorders beyond the membrane's attachment interface", "Cochlear, vestibular, and auditory-nerve function", "Whole-person hearing disability, diagnosis, and treatment planning", "Ventilation-tube design and lifecycle beyond its relationship to the membrane" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Identify a membrane at the medial end of the external auditory canal that forms the boundary with the middle-ear cavity; canal skin or obstructing debris alone does not establish this identity.", "Seek a coherent set of tympanic landmarks, such as the peripheral attachment, malleus handle, and umbo; record when disease, reconstruction, or limited visibility prevents their recognition.", "Distinguish the membrane from the oval and round windows by its canal-facing location and relationship to the malleus rather than an opening on the inner-ear boundary.", "Distinguish an actual membrane opening from a retraction pocket, adherent debris, or a dark region by recording evidence of tissue continuity rather than relying on colour alone.", "Distinguish native membrane, reconstructed membrane, and a membrane-mounted device using examination evidence and procedural history." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Ear laterality", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "left | right | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents findings and procedures from being assigned to the opposite eardrum." }, { "name": "Membrane region", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "pars tensa with stated quadrant | pars flaccida | annular margin | multiple regions | unlocalised", "why_it_matters": "Makes defects, pockets, and repairs anatomically locatable." }, { "name": "Tissue continuity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "intact | perforated | surgically opened | indeterminate; record tube occupancy separately", "why_it_matters": "Changes interpretation of membrane mechanics and the prerequisites for procedures involving the ear." }, { "name": "Defect extent", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "estimated percentage of membrane area or calibrated dimensions in mm, with method and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Supports meaningful comparison of perforations and healing across examinations." }, { "name": "Membrane position", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "neutral | retracted | bulging | mixed | indeterminate, localised by region", "why_it_matters": "Records deformation without equating appearance with a specific underlying diagnosis." }, { "name": "Membrane mobility", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "observed excursion or reduced | absent | increased | indeterminate response, with examination method and stimulus", "why_it_matters": "Separates direct evidence about membrane movement from indirect evidence about the middle-ear system." }, { "name": "Surface and tissue appearance", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "described colour, translucency, visible deposits, scarring, and focal surface changes, with region and observation conditions", "why_it_matters": "Preserves visible evidence while avoiding unsupported diagnoses from appearance alone." }, { "name": "Visible membrane proportion", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "estimated percentage, with obscured regions and reason for obscuration", "why_it_matters": "An apparently intact visible portion cannot establish integrity of the entire membrane." }, { "name": "Attachment and contact relationships", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "relationship to annular attachment, malleus, other middle-ear structures, graft, or ventilation tube; observed | suspected | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Supports interpretation of altered shape, reconstruction, and mechanical coupling." }, { "name": "Repair state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unrepaired defect | healing | closed after prior defect | reconstructed | uncertain, with dated evidence", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes current closure from native tissue and supports longitudinal assessment." } ], "affordances": [ "Associate an otoscopic image or examination with the correct ear and annotate membrane regions and landmarks.", "Record perforations, retraction pockets, scars, and reconstruction with explicit visibility limits.", "Compare dated observations for changes in defect extent, membrane position, and healing.", "Relate observed movement to supporting tests while preserving uncertainty about the source of mechanical abnormalities.", "Check membrane-specific prerequisites before proposing an examination, exposure, or procedure.", "Route unresolved or concerning membrane findings for qualified clinical assessment." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "gray-anatomy", "title": "Tympanic membrane", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eardrum", "what_it_supports": "Anatomical definition, layers, pars tensa vs pars flaccida, measurements, neighbours", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "membrane-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Membrane identity and boundaries", "description": "Establish which eardrum is represented and which observed structures belong to it.", "rationale": "A useful assessment depends on correct laterality and on distinguishing the membrane from canal tissue, debris, and adjacent middle-ear structures.", "layers": [ { "id": "ear-and-landmark-identification", "name": "Ear and landmark identification", "description": "Anchor the membrane to an ear and document the landmarks supporting recognition.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-tympanic-identity", "name": "Supported tympanic identity", "description": "Record laterality and the anatomical evidence identifying the observed surface as the tympanic membrane.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which ear does this membrane belong to, and what establishes laterality?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-tympanic-identity-q01" }, { "text": "Which peripheral attachment, malleus, or umbo landmarks support identification, and which cannot be recognised?", "kind": "definition", "id": "supported-tympanic-identity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "regional-and-tissue-boundaries", "name": "Regional and tissue boundaries", "description": "Locate membrane regions and distinguish native tissue, reconstruction, and adjacent material.", "findings": [ { "id": "regional-tissue-map", "name": "Regional tissue map", "description": "Represent the anatomical location and tissue ownership of each local finding.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the finding involve pars tensa, pars flaccida, or the annular margin, and how is its orientation established?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "regional-tissue-map-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes native membrane or graft tissue from canal tissue, debris, or an attached device?", "kind": "definition", "id": "regional-tissue-map-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "continuity-and-repair", "name": "Continuity and repair", "description": "Describe openings, tissue alterations, and restoration of membrane continuity.", "rationale": "Integrity and repair history affect both mechanical interpretation and what can safely be proposed for the ear.", "layers": [ { "id": "openings-and-defect-geometry", "name": "Openings and defect geometry", "description": "Characterise confirmed or suspected interruptions of membrane tissue.", "findings": [ { "id": "membrane-opening-evidence", "name": "Membrane opening evidence", "description": "Record evidence for an opening, its extent, and its relationship to the membrane margin or a tube.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is tissue discontinuity directly demonstrated, or could the apparent opening be a pocket, shadow, or obscured region?", "kind": "definition", "id": "membrane-opening-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Where is each opening, how large is it, and does it reach the annular margin or contain a ventilation tube?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "membrane-opening-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "scarring-grafts-and-healing", "name": "Scarring, grafts, and healing", "description": "Track tissue changes associated with prior defects and reconstruction.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-repair-trajectory", "name": "Documented repair trajectory", "description": "Connect current tissue appearance and closure to dated observations and procedural evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "What examination or procedural evidence establishes previous perforation, graft placement, or membrane repair?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-repair-trajectory-q01" }, { "text": "Across comparable observations, has the defect closed, changed extent, or remained unresolved, and what tissue changes remain visible?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "documented-repair-trajectory-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "position-and-mechanical-response", "name": "Position and mechanical response", "description": "Represent membrane shape, local deformation, movement, and mechanical interfaces.", "rationale": "An intact eardrum can still have altered position or motion, and whole-ear test results cannot automatically be attributed to membrane tissue.", "layers": [ { "id": "membrane-contour-and-pockets", "name": "Membrane contour and pockets", "description": "Localise bulging, retraction, and relationships created by deformation.", "findings": [ { "id": "regional-position-and-pocket-visibility", "name": "Regional position and pocket visibility", "description": "Describe membrane contour and whether a retracted region can be fully assessed.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which regions are retracted or bulging, and what visual landmarks support that judgement?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "regional-position-and-pocket-visibility-q01" }, { "text": "If a retraction pocket is present, are its base and contents visible, and is contact with another structure observed or merely suspected?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "regional-position-and-pocket-visibility-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-coupling", "name": "Movement and coupling", "description": "Separate directly observed membrane motion from indirect mechanical measurements.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributable-mechanical-response", "name": "Attributable mechanical response", "description": "Record movement evidence together with the limits of attributing a test result to the membrane.", "questions": [ { "text": "What membrane movement was observed, under which stimulus and examination conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "attributable-mechanical-response-q01" }, { "text": "Which supporting results describe the combined middle-ear system, and what evidence permits any abnormality to be attributed specifically to the membrane?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attributable-mechanical-response-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "appearance-and-observation-quality", "name": "Appearance and observation quality", "description": "Preserve local visual findings and the conditions that limit their interpretation.", "rationale": "Membrane appearance depends on visibility and examination conditions, and a partial view can conceal clinically relevant regions.", "layers": [ { "id": "local-visual-findings", "name": "Local visual findings", "description": "Describe visible membrane changes without treating appearance as a settled cause.", "findings": [ { "id": "localised-surface-and-tissue-appearance", "name": "Localised surface and tissue appearance", "description": "Record colour, translucency, deposits, and focal changes with anatomical localisation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What colour, translucency, deposit, or focal tissue changes are visible, and in which membrane regions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "localised-surface-and-tissue-appearance-q01" }, { "text": "Is the observed material on the membrane, within its tissue, or visible behind it, and what remains uncertain?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "localised-surface-and-tissue-appearance-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "coverage-and-examination-provenance", "name": "Coverage and examination provenance", "description": "Establish how much of the membrane was assessed and how the evidence was obtained.", 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"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 eardrum 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 eardrum from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a eardrum, 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 eardrum, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", 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"id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a eardrum, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a eardrum, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a eardrum is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a eardrum is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a eardrum, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a eardrum, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a eardrum is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference 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"place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a eardrum is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a eardrum is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a eardrum, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a eardrum, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a eardrum is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a eardrum is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a eardrum, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a eardrum, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a eardrum 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 eardrum 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 eardrum between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a eardrum, 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 eardrum, 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 eardrum 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 eardrum, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a eardrum 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 eardrum, 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 eardrum, 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 eardrum is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "function-and-principle", "name": "Function and operating principle", "description": "What eardrum is for and how it achieves it.", "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can work on different principles, and the principle is what predicts failure and constrains use.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-function", "name": "Intended function", "description": "The job it does, and the jobs it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-record", "name": "Function, principle and variants", "description": "What it does, how, and which variants do it differently.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-record-q01", "text": "What function does eardrum perform, on what operating principle, and which variants differ in that principle?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "function-record-q02", "text": "What use falls outside the intended function but happens in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacity-and-rating", "name": "Capacity and rating", "description": "The numbers that say what it can do and where it stops.", "findings": [ { "id": "ratings", "name": "Ratings and their conditions", "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise eardrum, in what units, and under what stated conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "ratings-q02", "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-state", "name": "Operation, controls and state", "description": "How eardrum is operated and what state it is in right now.", "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-modes", "name": "Controls and modes", "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-surface", "name": "Control surface and interlocks", "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.", "questions": [ { "id": "control-surface-q01", "text": "What controls and modes does eardrum have, and what does each change?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "control-surface-q02", "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Condition and maintenance", "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-record", "name": "Condition, service and consumables", "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.", "questions": [ { "id": "service-record-q01", "text": "What consumables and service does eardrum need, at what interval, and on whose authority?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence 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has only the kind?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-conformity", "name": "Standards and conformity", "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conformity", "name": "Standards, marks and attestation", "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark means.", "questions": [ { "id": "conformity-q01", "text": "Which standards govern eardrum, issued by whom, and what does conformity actually assert?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "conformity-q02", "text": "What may an agent conclude from a certification mark, and what may it not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a eardrum 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": [ 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"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 eardrum is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a eardrum, 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 eardrum, 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 eardrum is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }