[Tagging] Spelling of healthcare:speciality=maxillofacial_surgery

[Stefan Tauner]

On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 22:44:13 -0800
Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:

> I believe the speciality is normally referred to as "maxillofacial surgery"
> - however "oral surgery" is perhaps more commonly known:
> https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/oral-surgery?q=maxillofacial+surgery
> 
> As mentioned before, you can call it "oral and maxillofacial surgery" if
> you want to be long-winded, but that seems unnecessary:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_and_maxillofacial_surgery#United_Kingdom_and_Europe

Thanks Mateusz and Joseph. Indeed, I should have looked up the
real-world circumstances better first. So the topic is actually fixing
the spelling of dental_oral_maxillo_facial_surgery and the possible
unification of the two.

I am not necessarily against merging them together to
maxillofacial_surgery since the alternatives are indeed a bit of a mouthful :)
The universal/international term, however, seems to be "Oral and
Maxillofacial Surgery". This is especially true in English-speaking
countries, but it is also used in German (Mund-Kiefer-Gesichtschirurgie
literally mouth-jaw-face-surgery). One example where it does not
include the dental/oral part is French: "Chirurgien maxillo-faciale".

"Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery" is also one of the 14 specialities
defined by the American College of Surgeons. NB: there also exists a
Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery but that's covered by plastic_surgery.
https://www.facs.org/education/resources/medical-students/faq/specialties/
And it is the term used in the Healthcare Provider Taxonomy that I
presume is used for accounting of medical services in the USA.
http://www.hipaaspace.com/medical_billing/coding/healthcare.provider.taxonomy.code.set/204E00000X

If we take a quick look at academia the outcome is a bit more mixed.
However, the oral part is predominantly included here too:
https://scholar.google.at/scholar?as_vis=1&q=Maxillofacial+Surgery&hl=en&as_sdt=1,5

So the questions seem to be:
 - if it makes sense to differentiate between the two at all,
 - if not then which tag should be used.

During the proposal this came up briefly in the context of simplifying
the values:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/Healthcare#To_complex_specialisation_values.3F
It was definitely already part of the proposal:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?oldid=589962

I fear that this is an especially narrow topic that few "ordinary"
people can really contribute to. The usage numbers I reported do also
prove that... if a standardized tag is used only a few dozen times
after 10 years then something is wrong IMHO. If anybody knows some
doctors it certainly would make sense to ask them.

If there is no significant further input I would like to know if it is
OK/perfered to at least fix the spelling, i.e. to convert
dental_oral_maxillo_facial_surgery to dental_oral_maxillofacial_surgery
in the wiki and the database?
There are some external users though. If you search for
dental_oral_maxillo_facial_surgery on github you find mostly data dumps, which is not interesting, but also genuine uses for example
 - osmand:
      https://github.com/osmandapp/osmand-api-demo/blob/master/OsmAnd-qt-core-sample/app/src/net/osmand/osm/poi_types.xml#L2672
 - https://healthsites.io/:
      https://github.com/healthsites/healthsites/blob/develop/django_project/api/osm_tag_defintions.py#L109

So maybe this is whole endeavor is futile and it will be just enough
stupid mistake we have to live with forever? :(
-- 
Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner