Representing the Aboutness of a Diagnosis

Clinical statements such as diagnoses are correct only if all the entities they reference exist and stand in the requisite relationships. Representing the aboutness of a diagnosis to this entire configuration of entities is not straightforward. Past approaches require extraneous entities like "situation" and cannot indicate specifically which relationships in a configuration are relevant for the diagnosis to be correct. I use the paradigm of referent tracking to represent the aboutness of a diagnosis in a manner that addresses these shortcomings.