A Terminology in General Practice/Family Medicine to Represent Non-Clinical Aspects for Various Usages: the Q-Codes
Jamoulle, M.; Grosjean, J.; Resnick, M.; Ittoo, A.; Treuherz, A.; Vander Stichele, R.; Cardillo, E.; Darmoni, S.éf.J.; Shamenek, F.S.; Vanmeerbeek, M.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 235: 471-475
2017
ISSN/ISBN: 1879-8365 PMID: 28423837 Document Number: 694110
The hereby proposed terminology called "Q-Codes" can be defined as an extension of the International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC-2). It deals with non-clinical concepts that are relevant in General Practice/Family Medicine (GP/FM). This terminology is a good way to put an emphasis on underestimated topics such as Teaching, Patient issues or Ethics. It aims at indexing GP/FM documents such as congress abstracts and theses to get a more comprehensive view about the GP/FM domain. The 182 identified Q-Codes have been very precisely defined by a college of experts (physicians and terminologists) from twelve countries. The result is available on the Health Terminology/Ontology Portal (http://www.hetop.org/Q) and formatted in OWL-2 for further semantic considerations and will be used to index the 2016 WONCA World congress communications.