"clinical statement" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a phrase that is typically used in the medical field, and is generally used to refer to the professional opinion given by a medical professional. For example: The doctor's clinical statement was that the patient must take antibiotics in order to recover from the infection.
Although the statement that age is the greatest risk factor for Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is widely accepted, the cellular and molecular explanations for that clinical statement are not generally known.
Although the statement that age is a risk factor for many adult human diseases is widely accepted, the cellular and molecular explanations for that clinical statement are not generally known [1], [2].
Clinical statement alone is not enough to predict the progression of disease.
The clinical statement modeling (entry) in CDA utilizes the HL7 V3 RIM and Data Type R1 specifications to enable semantic interoperability.
This can be inferred by looking at the context, comparing the clinical statement with other similar statements, or checking with the clinician who made the remarks.
The clinical statement entries used in CDA contain Encounter, as an interaction between patient and care provider for the purpose of providing healthcare services.
The CDA R2 model is richly expressive, enabling the formal representation of clinical statements (such as observations, medication administrations, and adverse events) such that they can be interpreted and acted upon by a computer.
All clinical information can ultimately be expressed in "Entries", or logical clinical statements.
For example, the context of data entry is considered, in which the information generated by a "healthcare event", containing "clinical statements", is added.
Moreover, some specific clinical statements, e.g. lab investigation orders and medication orders are handled by specialised applications that are not using the COSMIC template model.
With proper manual inspection, it should be possible to use a COMPOSITION and a number of ENTRY subclasses to represent the clinical statements of different natural classes, e.g. OBSERVATION and INSTRUCTION in a COSMIC template.
