ISO/TS 6304:2022 伝統的な漢方薬—障害のカテゴリー構造 | ページ 2

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This document was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 249, Traditional Chinese medicine.

Introduction

The standardization of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been carried out for herbs, acupuncture and moxibustion, among other things. However, disease terminology in TCM has not yet been standardized, nor has how to standardize the classification of diseases been discussed.

The terminology of diseases is essential knowledge in medicine for understanding and describing a disease. In TCM, terms for diseases are based on Han Chinese characters. It is necessary to develop standards and structural categories of terms because there are several ways to express a disease when translating terms from Han Chinese characters to English.

This document offers various benefits to the TCM industry. Above all, it provides guidance for the standardization of disorder terms. It also suggests a way to refine these terms through semantic links between categories, which can eventually be used as a primary database for clinical decision support systems.

The potential uses for this document include:

• support for developers in providing new terminological systems concerning disorder representation in TCM;
• facilitating the representation of TCM disorders using a standardized core model in a manner suitable for computer processing;
• facilitating the mapping and improving semantic correspondence between different terminologies by proposing a core specification for TCM disorder;
• providing a tool for disorder text mining, database construction and ancient document processing over a wide area of TCM.

1 Scope

This document aims to specify a categorial structure in the field of disorder representation in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) by defining a set of domain constraints for use within terminological resources. It contains a concept detailing the domains of four subcategories: body parts, causative agents, pathological process and manifestation.

This document does not include:

• a comprehensive categorial structure for TCM;
• a treatment procedure for TCM;
• relevant devices;
• terms or descriptions for subcategories of body parts, causative agents, pathological process or manifestation.

2 Normative references

There are no normative references in this document.

3 Terms and definitions

For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply.

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