Development of an ontology to characterize mental functioning.
Maryanne J Sacco, Guy Divita, Elizabeth Rasch
PMID 37702040WHAT IT FOUND
This paper outlines a new classification system for mental functioning to help software read medical records for disability claims.
It does not test any therapy or report patient outcomes, so it offers no evidence to change clinical treatment.
What this paper is
This paper describes the development of an ontology (a structured classification system) for mental functioning to support natural language processing tools for disability determination. It reports no clinical trial, no patient outcomes, and no evaluation of an intervention's efficacy. Consequently, there are no findings here that would change clinical practice for physical, occupational, or speech-language therapists.
The easy way to misread this
Do not interpret this as evidence for a new assessment tool or therapy. The paper only describes how researchers organized concepts to help computers search text; it does not show that this system improves patient care or diagnostic accuracy in a clinical setting.