oracle.hsgbu.ets.base

Interface UsageContext

public interface UsageContext

Provides a context in which a concept is to be described or defined. For example, a physician filling out a lab order may be presented with clinical abbreviations for various common blood tests, while a billing clerk viewing that same lab order may be presented with less technical jargon.

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static String	OWNER_TYPE_CTB_ORGANIZATION_UNIT External owner type for the CTB OrganizationUnit objects.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Concept[]	getContextConcepts() Gets all the concepts that have the ConceptDescription objects in this UsageContext object.
ConceptDescription[]	getContextDescriptions() Gets all the ConceptDescription objects that have this UsageContext object.
String	getDescription() Returns the description of this UsageContext object.
String	getName() Gets the name of this UsageContext object.

Field Detail

OWNER_TYPE_CTB_ORGANIZATION_UNIT

static final String OWNER_TYPE_CTB_ORGANIZATION_UNIT

External owner type for the CTB OrganizationUnit objects.

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Constant Field Values

Method Detail

getContextDescriptions

ConceptDescription[] getContextDescriptions()
                                     throws ETSDataException

Gets all the ConceptDescription objects that have this UsageContext object.

Returns:

Array of the ConceptDescription objects that have this UsageContext object, or a zero-length array and possibly from several different CodingScheme objects or CodingSchemeVersion objects.

Throws:

ETSDataException - If a data transport error occurs.

getContextConcepts

Concept[] getContextConcepts()
                      throws ETSDataException

Gets all the concepts that have the ConceptDescription objects in this UsageContext object.

Returns:

Array of the Concept objects, or a zero-length array and possibly from several different CodingScheme objects or CodingSchemeVersion objects.

Throws:

ETSDataException - If a data transport error occurs.

getName

String getName()

Gets the name of this UsageContext object. The maximum length of this attribute is 50.

Returns:

Name of this UsageContext object.

getDescription

String getDescription()

Returns the description of this UsageContext object. The maximum length of this attribute is 240.

Returns:

Description of this UsageContext object.