Altering the depth of Diagnosis Set of Sets

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Hi,

I am currently working on openmrs and one of the things I will encounter is the depth of Diagnosis Set of Sets.

So far I saw that this set it is structured in a way of three Levels e.x.

1. Diagnosis Set of Sets
  1.1 Blood Diseases
    1.1.1 Anemia

I would like to know if there is a possibility to depthen this hierarchy by let’s say adding another level:

 1. Diagnosis Set of Sets
  1.1 Blood Diseases
    1.1.1 Anemia
      1.1.1.1 Anemia A

or maybe remove a level and leave it with just two ?

 1. Diagnosis Set of Sets
  1.1 Blood Diseases
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Hi @aidjali,

There is code logic out there that would break if we change the nesting structure.

Can you elaborate as to why you would wish to change the nesting one way or another?

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The reason I wanted to change the nesting it is because I wanted to use the official ICD 10 - WHO standard.

    1 Diagnosis Set of Sets
     1.1 Chapter Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and tissue (M00-M99)
       1.1.1 Section Osteoarthritis (M15-M19)
         1.1.1.1 Group Osteoarthritis of knee (M17)
            1.1.1.1.1 Diagnosis Bilateral primary osteoarthritis of knee (M17.0)
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Generally it is not a good UI decision to ask clinicians to navigate an ICD hierarchy. Please see Load ICD-10 in spanish for diagnostics for a discussion about use of interface terminology. Clinicians are not coders. If you want a coding workflow we should probably discuss using the reference_terminology tables.