title: Toward a patient safety upper level ontology.
abstract: Patient Safety (PS) standardization is the key to improve interoperability and expand international share of incident reporting system knowledge. By aligning the Patient Safety Categorial Structure (PS-CAST) to the Basic Formal Ontology version 2 (BFO2) upper level ontology, we aim to provide more rigor on the underlying organization on the one hand, and to share instances of concepts of categorial structure on the other hand. This alignment is a big step in the top-down approach, to build a complete and standardized domain ontology in order to facilitate the basis to a WHO accepted new information model for Patient Safety.
authors.affiliation: INSERM, U1142, LIMICS, F-75006, Paris, France; Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, UMR_S 1142, LIMICS, F-75006, Paris, France; Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, LIMICS, (UMR_S 1142), F-93430, Villetaneuse, France.
authors.forename: Julien
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Souvignet
authors.affiliation: INSERM, U1142, LIMICS, F-75006, Paris, France; Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, UMR_S 1142, LIMICS, F-75006, Paris, France; Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, LIMICS, (UMR_S 1142), F-93430, Villetaneuse, France.
authors.forename: Jean-Marie
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Rodrigues
mesh_terms: D064229:Biological Ontologies; D000068598:Data Accuracy; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000592:standards*; D061214:Patient Safety; D009626:Terminology as Topic