In a closely related discussion on importing the PIH dictionary into OCL, we discovered that PIH might not be using concept IDs for all concepts:
@mogoodrich I understand concept IDs can vary across servers, but always assumed PIH had a “gold” concept server with the official concept IDs. From your comment above on ocl_issues #45, I gather you treat concept.concept_id as the internal id it is and assign a PIH SAME-AS mapping when you need a human-friendly identifier (e.g., to reference the concept for a form, report, etc.). The interesting/new idea I didn’t see coming…
Assuming “code” refers to a human-friendly unique identifier (like PIH:5 for Asthma or PIH:5356 for Current WHO HIV Stage), is the following statement true?
Many PIH concepts do not have a PIH code
Looking more closely, in many cases where there isn’t a PIH code, there is a CIEL mapping. I suppose we could consider these cases to represent PIH using a CIEL concept. But there are still several hundred concepts that don’t have a mapping to PIH or CIEL. For example, if I ask you what concept does PIH use for Social Skills Evaluation (text), you could tell me you refer to it as 14f5a8c9-6db0-45c5-bf56-b30b62a5394f, but you couldn’t give me a PIH code (without adding a new mapping), right?