[inopinatus]

> The whole set of guidelines for a type of cancer breaks down into a few disjointed directed graphs

Nothing undermines medicine quite so thoroughly as yet another astronaut trying to force it into a data structure.

[prepend]

Comically, I worked in this space and initially tried to get decision support working with data structures and code sets and such.

I ended up only really contributed adding version numbers to the pdf. So at least people knew they had the latest and same versions. And that took a year, to get versions added to guideline pdfs.

[johnisgood]

That is wild, one would think versioning is extremely important. They tend to just put the timestamp in the filename (sometimes), which I guess is better than nothing.

Don't signed PDFs include a timestamp, however?

[prepend]

Getting in the file name was kind of easy. But I meant adding it visually in the pdf guidance so readers could tell. Just numbers in the lower left corner. Or maybe right.

The guideline was available via url so the filename couldn’t change.

[johnisgood]

Yeah I know what you meant, I agree, it's awful.