Observation, Assessment, and Finding (OAF)

(R. Lario)

Meant to communicate that the task of making an Observation(s) was to be performed by the clinician and a value recorded.  Further, a clinical rule is applied to the observation and respective values to be assessed asserting a new clinical Finding(s).  These findings, in tandem with the implied observation(s), can be aggregated into a compound observation. Where this compound observation is then Assessed using a rule or clinical algorithm creating yet another new finding.  Based upon this new finding, the CPG Branched accordingly progressing to the next procedure of either making a new observation or performing an Intervention.  This pattern continues to repeat: Observations that are Assessed resulting in Findings followed by a respective Branch inflow into either a subsequent Intervention or Observation (Figure 2. Observation Assessment Finding (OAF) Pattern). 

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