Documentation: An Evidence_Statement class allows a statement like “for the treatment of hypertension, presence of diabetes is a compelling indication for the use of ACE inhibitor (Strength of evidence ICSI grade 1 conclusion, see references “great big clinical trial in the sky” and “jnc 7 guideline”)

Superclasses

• Concept_Relationship
• Guideline_Model_Entity

Subclasses

• None

Types

• :STANDARD-CLASS

Template Slots
	Slot Name	Documentation	Type	Cardinality
	from	a criterion that defines the patient condition that is relevant to the relation to the intervetnionThe source concept in Concept_Relationship	Criterion	0:1
	label	A short human readable string indicating the content of the instanceEach instance has a unique label that can be assigned by the guideline modeler. The label should be descriptive of the guideline element. Labels have no programmatic meaning.human-readable string for the instance	String	0:1
	references	Sources of information regarding this concept-to-concept relationship.	Supplemental_Material	0:*
	relationship_qualifier	Any qualifier this relationship may have (for example, "compelling" indication or "absolute" contraindication)	ConceptDescriptor	0:1
	relationship_type	ideally one of a set of symbols for allowable types, (e.g., compelling indication) as yet undefined	ConceptDescriptor	1:1
	statement_subject	This slot specifies the suject matter of the evidence statement (e.g., prophylaxis of X or management of hypertension).	ConceptDescriptor	0:1
	strength_of_evidence	The coded grade of evidence	Class	0:1
	to	a terminology concept code representing the intervention being consideredThe target in concept relationship	ConceptDescriptor	0:1

Own Slots
	Slot Name	Value
	:ROLE	Concrete
	:SLOT-CONSTRAINTS

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