Class: Living_subject

Description of: Living_subject

Class steward is Orders/Observation
Interested committees Patient Administration
Any living organism or complex animal. This includes mammals, birds, fishes, bacteria, parasites, fungi and viruses.

OpenIssue: There are a number of duplicated attributes with Patient that need to be fixed. This probably needs to be remodeled properly.

Rationale: The Target_participation class cannot be subject to a mandatory connection to any particular target, in order to allow each Target_participation instance to select the appropriate target from among the possible targets.

Attribute definitions for: Living_subject

birth_dttm ::

The date and time of a living subject's birth or hatching.

birthplace_addr ::

The place the living_subject was born or hatched.

breed_txt ::

A text string representing the breed of the living subject.

coat_or_feather_coloring_txt ::

A string description of the marking and coloring of the feathers, coat, scales, or skin of a living subject.

confidentiality_constraint_cd ::

A code specifying the nature of publicity protections in place for this living subject.

deceased_dttm ::

The date and time that a living subject's death occurred.

deceased_ind ::

An indication that the living subject is dead.

euthanasia_ind ::

An indication that the living subject was euthanised.

eye_color_cd ::

A user-defined code representing the color of each eye.

gender_cd ::

A code specifying the gender of a living subject.

gender_status_cd ::

A code indicating the sexual status of a living subject.

importance_status_txt ::

A text string indicating the living subject's economic or psychological importance to the owner.

origin_country_cd ::

The country in which the living subject was born, captured or killed.

primary_name_type_cd ::

Represents the type of name, e.g., Common, Registered, Display, etc.

primary_nm ::

The primary name of a living subject.

production_class_cd ::

A code indicating the primary use for which the living subject was bred or grown.

qty ::

The quantity of individual living subjects represented by this instance of the class.

OpenIssue: This attribute is not the correct way to model populations, but it could be construed as this, which is incorrect. This needs to be modeled differently.

strain_txt ::

A text string representing the genotypic or phenotypic strain of the living subject.

taxonomic_classification_cd ::

A code representing the taxonomy of the living subject.

Association definitions for: Living_subject

is_source_for (0,n) :: Specimen :: is_sourced_from (0,1)

participates_as (0,n) :: Service_target :: participation_of (0,1)