title: Creating public health standard vocabularies: mapping a set of CDC's pathogen codes to SNOMED concepts.
abstract: CDC and its public health partners are conducting pilot projects designed to capture data directly from healthcare providers or to exchange existing data electronically.1 The translation of proprietary standards into the accepted national standards is a key part of this effort. This study mapped a set of pathogens within CDC's hospital infection control activities to The Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED) concepts and investigated the differences between the two.
authors.affiliation: Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, NCID, CDC, Atlanta, GA, USA.
authors.forename: Wenkai
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tolson
authors.forename: Teresa C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Horan
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000145:classification; D002487:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000382:microbiology; D020407:Internet; D011159:Population Surveillance; D039061:Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine; D014481:United States; D014780:Viruses / Q000145:classification; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled