SDP Vocabulary Service

For example, due to a multi-state outbreak, new information is needed to better understand and prevent the spread of Salmonellosis infection in people.  Epidemiologists gather this information using a data collection tool.  Disease detectives accelerate the creation of their data collection tool by using the Surveillance Data Platform Vocabulary service which allows them to reuse existing questions and possible answers.

The result = Technology Trims Tasks

FASTER:  Data collection instrument or survey is created quickly by reusing existing questions and response sets

SMARTER: Reduced variability in data facilitates apples to apples comparisons

BETTER:  Disease detectives ask consistent questions and report consistent answers, allowing multiple datasets to be compared more easily

Search and Filter to Find Existing Content Easily

Benefit: Facilitates discovery and reuse of existing vocabulary content

 

Leverage Expertise Across Programs and Systems

Benefit: Allows users to see which programs and systems are using which content, providing insight into the context behind content’s use, and allowing users to leverage other programs’ experience and work

 

Author New Content

Benefit: When no existing content meets an author’s data collection needs, the Surveillance Data Platform Vocabulary Service provides an interface for authors to create new content from scratch, or extend existing content. Extending means creating a copy of existing content to be used as a starting point for an author’s own needs.

 

Draft Content Privately, then Submit for Publishing when Ready

Benefit: Authors decide when their new content is ready to be submitted for Publisher review and public visibility

 

Export Groupings of Questions in SDP-V Forms and SDP-V Surveys

Benefit: Leverage Vocabulary service content and authoring capabilities to create a data collection specification for use in other data collection tools

 

Search for Codes Across Several Code Systems

Benefit: Enables authors to look up coded values from code systems such as LOINC and SNOMED for use in their response sets

 

Maintain Version History

Benefit: See the evolution of Vocabulary content from one published version to the next