ISO/TS 16843-5:2019

Health Informatics — Categorial structures for representation of acupuncture — Part 5: Cupping

This document aims to specify categorial structure in the field of cupping by defining a set of domain constraints for use within terminological resources. This document describes a concept system detailing the domain constraints of sanctioned characteristics, each composed of a semantic link and applicable characterizing categories.

Informatique de santé — Structures catégoriques pour la représentation de l'acupuncture — Partie 5: Titre manque

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 07-Mar-2019
• ICS: 35.240.80 - IT applications in health care technology
• Technical Committee: ISO/TC 215 - Health informatics
• Drafting Committee: ISO/TC 215/WG 3 - Semantic content
• Current Stage: 9093 - International Standard confirmed
• Start Date: 19-Jan-2023
• Completion Date: 19-Apr-2025

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TECHNICAL ISO/TS
SPECIFICATION 16843-5
First edition
2019-03
Health Informatics — Categorial
structures for representation of
acupuncture —
Part 5:
Cupping
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ISO 2019
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Contents Page
Foreword .iv
Introduction .v
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3 Terms and definitions . 1
3.1 General . 1
3.2 Characterizing categories . 2
4 Categorial structure . 3
4.1 Overview . 3
4.2 Semantic link . 4
4.2.1 is applied to . 4
4.2.2 is applied as . 4
4.2.3 is applied with . 4
4.2.4 is applied by . 4
4.2.5 is applied for . 4
4.2.6 is applied . 4
4.2.7 is applied selecting . 5
4.2.8 is applied utilizing . 5
4.2.9 is provided by . 5
4.2.10 is decompressed by . 5
4.2.11 is equipped with . 5
4.2.12 is proportional to . 5
4.2.13 is used for . 5
4.2.14 is followed by . 6
5 Conformance . 6
Bibliography . 7
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Introduction
Acupuncture therapy is widely practiced in Asia, and as a part of complementary and alternative
medicine treatments in western countries. Cupping is a therapeutic procedure using a vacuumized cup
or jar to apply negative pressure to certain points or areas of the body surface for treating diseases
through regulation of the functions of meridians/channels and visceral organs.
A guideline for reporting acupuncture intervention in clinical trials has already been provided and a
large number of clinical trials have been conducted to assess the efficacy and efficiency of acupuncture
therapy. However, the descriptions of cupping, as an acupuncture intervention in clinical reports tend
to be insufficient for the interpretation of heterogeneity among trials, often causing difficulties in
synthesizing data in meta-analysis. This arises from three reasons: firstly, an appropriate information
structure of cupping has not yet been formulated; secondly, the peculiar concepts within traditional
medicine in the western pacific-rim region originated in China and are not considered sufficient;
thirdly, semantic associations between concepts of cupping need to be explicit.
This document defines the categorial structures in the field of cupping in order to address these existing
problems.
The potential benefits of this document include
— supporting developers to provide new terminological resources concerning cupping,
— supporting developers to provide new detailed content areas of existing terminological resources
concerning the cupping process to ensure its conformance,
— facilitating the representation of the cupping process using a standardized core model in a manner
suitable for computer processing,
— providing a conceptual framework for the generation of a compositional concept representation of
cupping,
— facilitating the mapping and improved semantic correspondence between different terminological
resources by proposing a core specification for cupping and the means for determining conformance
to the specification;
— providing a core model to describe the structure of cupping, and facilitate improved semantic
correspondence with information models,
— providing a tool for cupping text mining, database construction, ancient document processing over
a wide area of acupuncture information collection and processing, and
— providing a new method for researchers to conduct relevant research, and ideas for the development
of acupuncture and moxibustion disciplines.
The target groups for this document are
— stakeholders such as companies which offer Electronic Categorial Structures, by helping build
Knowledge databases or automatic processing of the medical literature,
— clinicians who can be given assistance on the semantics of needling and cupping procedures, or
support in clinical decision making, and
— researchers assisted in performing text mining.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION ISO/TS 16843-5:2019(E)
Health Informatics — Categorial structures for
representation of acupuncture —
Part 5:
Cupping
1 Scope
This document aims to specify categorial structure in the field of cupping by defining a set of domain
constraints for use within terminological resources.
This document describes a concept system detailing the domain constraints of sanctioned
characteristics, each composed of a semantic link and applicable characterizing categories.
2 Normative references
There are no normative references in this document.
3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply.
ISO and IEC maintain terminological databases for use in standardization at the following addresses:
— ISO Online browsing platform: available at https: //www .iso .org/obp
— IEC Electropedia: available at http: //www .electropedia .org/
3.1 General
3.1.1
cupping
action by creating localized negative pressure where the cups are placed on the skin by means of either
heat or suction pump, for affecting the body surface or increasing bloodletting by the negative pressure
within the cups
3.1.2
cupping apparatus
apparatus for cupping therapy, which can maintain negative pressures generated by pressure control
device (3.2.6)
EXAMPLE Suction cup, bamboo cup, glass cup.
3.1.3
method for generating decompressed pressure
cupping procedure generating negative pressure to attach the cupping apparatus (3.1.2)
EXAMPLE Fire-insertion cupping method, flash-fire cupping method, cotton-burning cupping method.
3.2 Characterizing categories
3.2.1
cupping site
body surface where cupping (3.1.1) can be applied, including the acupuncture point
Note 1 to entry: See ISO/TS 16843-1:2016, 3.7.
3.2.2
cup type
type of cupping apparatus (3.1.2) classified by its characteristics, materials and features
EXAMPLE Air extraction cupping device (see ISO 19611:2007, 3.3).
3.2.3
cup size
characteristics of cupping apparatus (3.1.2) affecting the decompressed pressure (3.2.4)
EXAMPLE Diameter, inner volume.
Note 1 to entry: Configuration of the air extraction cupping device is described in ISO 19611.
3.2.4
decompressed pressure
force for attaching cupping apparatus (3.1.2) to the body surface
3.2.5
pressure control method
method for generating decompressed pressure (3.1.3) of cupping apparatus (3.1.2)
EXAMPLE Fire-insertion cupping method, flash-fire cupping method, cotton-burning cupping method (see
[9]
IST 2007 , 5.2.6-8), aspiration.
3.2.6
pressure control device
device for generating decompressed pressure (3.2.4) of cupping apparatus (3.1.2)
EXAMPLE Manual suction pump, electrical suction pump.
3.2.7
performing method
therapeutic method used to implement cupping (3.1.1)
[9]
EXAMPLE Retained cupping, slide cupping (see IST 2007 , 5.3.5, 9), flash cupping, medicated cupping,
pricking-cupping bloodletting method.
3.2.8
needling
technique using acupuncture which can be combined with performing method (3.2.7)
[9]
EXAMPLE Needle retention
...