Hi All -
I am looking for advice on how to structure a part of an application I
am working on in support of a research project.
I have a lot of data that includes diagnoses for patients. Diagnoses
are captured using hierarchical data structured in the following way:
General Diagnosis Category -> Detail Diagnosis Category -> Diagnosis
Code.
When I originally mocked this up in java I thought that I could use an
"is a" relationship to model this data for searches thru large amounts
of data.
Data could be structured in the following manner:
>Cancer
>Breast Cancer
>Breast Cancer type 1
>Breast Cancer type 2
>Breast Cancer type 3
>Lung Cancer
>Lung Cancer type 1
>Lung Cancer type 2
>Lung Cancer type 3
>Lung Cancer type 4
>Prostate Cancer
>Prostate Cancer type 1
>Prostate Cancer type 2
So I originally thought I could have a class
Cancer
with other classes
BreastCancer extends Cancer
and
BreastCancerType1 extends Breast Cancer
, etc...
I could then search (using some sort of matching methodology -
considering the use of either Matchure or mini-kanren - not sure
exactly what yet...) for a more or less general search using the 'is a
' criteria depending on search criteria.
I have (happily) abandoned java for Clojure. I was originally going
to use hierarchies to do this but...it just seems like an
inappropriate use of this. I would really appreciate how to both
store this data that would enable a search of the data that uses the
hierarchical nature of this data to allow me to increase or decrease
the specificity of a search based on some criteria.
As you can tell i am still trying to formulate a strategy...I would
really appreciate some input on how to structure this data/application
and the use of hierarchies in this way, as well as alternative ways to
accomplish this.
Thanks much in advance.
Base
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