org.mitre.midiki.workshop
Class MedicalHistory

java.lang.Object
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  +--org.mitre.midiki.workshop.MedicalHistory

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable

public class MedicalHistory

extends java.lang.Object

implements java.io.Serializable

Represents an item in the patient's medical history which is suggestive of a particular disease. Typically, disease descriptions show those historys which must be present, while diagnosis queries may contain historys which have been identified as absent (as distinct from historys whose status is unknown).

Since:

1.0

See Also:

Serializable, Serialized Form

Field Summary

java.lang.String	name The name of the history.
boolean	present true if the history is present.
boolean	required true if the symptom is required vs suggestive.

Constructor Summary

MedicalHistory()
Empty constructor.

MedicalHistory(java.lang.String n, boolean q, boolean p)
Creates a new MedicalHistory instance.

Method Summary

boolean	matches(MedicalHistory s) Returns true if the history matches the query.
java.lang.String	toString() Generates a string representation of the history.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

name

public java.lang.String name

The name of the history.

required

public boolean required

true if the symptom is required vs suggestive.

present

public boolean present

true if the history is present.

Constructor Detail

MedicalHistory

public MedicalHistory()

Empty constructor.

MedicalHistory

public MedicalHistory(java.lang.String n,
                      boolean q,
                      boolean p)

Creates a new MedicalHistory instance.

Parameters:

n - a String value

q - a boolean value

p - a boolean value

Method Detail

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Generates a string representation of the history.

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

Returns:

a String value

matches

public boolean matches(MedicalHistory s)

Returns true if the history matches the query. Since synonyms are not considered, this is a less powerful match than the one performed by WorkshopDatabase in calculating a diagnosis.

Parameters:

s - a MedicalHistory value

Returns:

a boolean value