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"name": "Accessory connections and reconstruction", "description": "Represents digestive gland connections and pathways changed by development, surgery or devices.", "findings": [ { "id": "secretory-and-altered-route-map", "name": "Secretory and altered route map", "description": "Record where digestive secretions enter the tract and how resections, bypasses, anastomoses or stomas change routes.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which salivary, biliary and pancreatic drainage routes are documented as connected to the tract?", "kind": "definition", "id": "secretory-and-altered-route-map-q01" }, { "text": "Which operative reports, imaging findings or device records establish reconstructed routes and their current status?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "secretory-and-altered-route-map-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "intake-swallowing-and-transit", "name": "Intake, swallowing and transit", "description": "Describes entry of material and its propulsion through the digestive tract.", "rationale": "An 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"kind": "boundary", "id": "supported-absorptive-capability-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "defecation-continence-and-stoma-output", "name": "Defecation, continence and stoma output", "description": "Describes the route, pattern and control of digestive output.", "findings": [ { "id": "outlet-specific-elimination-pattern", "name": "Outlet-specific elimination pattern", "description": "Record bowel movements or stoma output relative to the person's anatomy and documented baseline.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the frequency, amount where measured, consistency and route of output over a stated interval?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "outlet-specific-elimination-pattern-q01" }, { "text": "What difficulty, urgency, leakage or assistance accompanies elimination, and how does it differ from the documented baseline?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "outlet-specific-elimination-pattern-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tissue-integrity-and-regulatory-interfaces", "name": "Tissue integrity and 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"text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a human digestive system, 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 human digestive system 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 human digestive system from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a human digestive system, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", 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lifecycle of a human digestive system, 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 human digestive system 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 human digestive system, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a human digestive system 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 human digestive system, and in what units or 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agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a human digestive system 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 } } } }