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Glossary and evidence labels

Use this page to decode the Wiki's main domain terms, mechanism codes and traceability identifiers. Definitions describe how the terms are used here; they do not replace the linked primary or programme authority.

Domain terms

Term Meaning in this Wiki
PFD Prevention of Future Deaths report made by a coroner where circumstances create a risk of other deaths and action should be taken. A future-risk concern is not automatically a causal finding about the investigated death.
EHR / EPR Electronic health record / electronic patient record. The source material uses both; neither term implies one product or architecture.
ePRF Electronic patient report form, particularly for ambulance records in this corpus.
DPHC Defence Primary Healthcare.
DMICP Defence Medical Information Capability Programme, the current Defence clinical-record capability discussed in the application layer.
Programme CORTISONE The Defence health-information capability programme to which the Wiki translates candidate requirements and assurance questions.
DCB0129 / DCB0160 NHS clinical-safety standards for manufacturers and deploying health organisations respectively. Mention does not establish current DMICP or CORTISONE conformance.
ICMM International Conference on Military Medicine; the Wiki contains a working 2026 publication workspace.

Traceability identifiers

Prefix Record Authority boundary
SRC- Registered source Records provenance, type, retrieval and reliability limits; a source's existence does not validate every claim made from it.
CLM- Controlled claim Preserves an explicit source/report/mechanism trace where one is needed. Not every extracted field requires a claim row.
REQ- Candidate Defence requirement Analytical translation until Defence validates and accepts it.
AST- Designed assurance test Test design only until executed and supported by recorded evidence.

Mechanism codes

Codes are non-exclusive reviewer classifications. They describe a mechanism in the bounded corpus and are not prevalence, causal-weight or product-safety scores.

Code Meaning Finding
VIS Information visibility Information visibility and decision support
ALERT Decision support and alerting Information visibility and decision support
LOOP Action ownership and closed-loop work Closed-loop work and action ownership
INT Interoperability and continuity Interoperability, identity and continuity
IDPOP Identity, registration and population management Interoperability, identity and continuity
PROV Data quality, provenance and auditability Record integrity and provenance
RES Resilience and degraded operation Resilience and degraded operation
GOV Governance and assurance Governance and assurance
HF Human factors and usability Human-factors lens

Statement labels

  • Coronial finding or concern: what the primary PFD report says, retaining its report-specific causal wording.
  • Recipient account: what a responding organisation says; neither a coronial finding nor proof that proposed action was completed or effective.
  • Reviewer extraction or coding: a structured representation made for this evidence map.
  • Cross-case synthesis: a bounded interpretation of recurrence, variation and limits across included reports.
  • Defence translation: a candidate requirement, scenario or hypothesis requiring current Defence evidence.

The canonical route is primary source → report → claim → mechanism → candidate requirement → assurance test.