PHSkb: A knowledgebase to support notifiable disease surveillance

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• Alternative Title:
  BMC Med Inform Decis Mak
• Personal Author:
  Doyle, Timothy J ; Ma, Haobo ; Groseclose, Samuel L ; Hopkins, Richard S
• Description:
  Background
  
  Notifiable disease surveillance in the United States is predominantly a passive process that is often limited by poor timeliness and low sensitivity. Interoperable tools are needed that interact more seamlessly with existing clinical and laboratory data to improve notifiable disease surveillance.
  
  Description
  
  The Public Health Surveillance Knowledgebase (PHSkb™) is a computer database designed to provide quick, easy access to domain knowledge regarding notifiable diseases and conditions in the United States. The database was developed using Protégé ontology and knowledgebase editing software. Data regarding the notifiable disease domain were collected via a comprehensive review of state health department websites and integrated with other information used to support the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS). Domain concepts were harmonized, wherever possible, to existing vocabulary standards. The knowledgebase can be used: 1) as the basis for a controlled vocabulary of reportable conditions needed for data aggregation in public health surveillance systems; 2) to provide queriable domain knowledge for public health surveillance partners; 3) to facilitate more automated case detection and surveillance decision support as a reusable component in an architecture for intelligent clinical, laboratory, and public health surveillance information systems.
  
  Conclusions
  
  The PHSkb provides an extensible, interoperable system architecture component to support notifiable disease surveillance. Further development and testing of this resource is needed.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Communicable Diseases Database Database Management Systems Disease Notification Federal Government Humans Internet Population Surveillance Public Health Administration Public Health Informatics Software State Government Systems Integration Vocabulary, Controlled

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• Source:
  BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 5:27.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Volume:
  5
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:50797d13e9182e71f12e70d5a6bcc4e90f97daeca172b6bba206f06e83af794e
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/3474/cdc_3474_DS1.pdf
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