Volume 3, Number 1—March 1997
Dispatch
Knowledge-Based Patient Screening for Rare and Emerging Infectious/Parasitic Diseases: A Case Study of Brucellosis and Murine Typhus
Table 1
Knowledge base of 223 diseases at the time of case study
Information axis | Disease entities | Lines of text |
---|---|---|
Etiology | 410 | |
Epidemiologya | 9724 | |
Immunodeficiency info | 352 | |
Diagnostic procedures | 306 | |
Diagnostic procedure | 637 | |
Occupational linksb | 37 | |
Geographic links (countries)c | 191 | |
Vectors/Invertebrate hosts | 703 | |
Symptoms/Clinical signs | 1422 | |
Treatment/Prevention | 3162 | |
Special considerationsd | 308 | |
Bibliographic citations | 838 | |
Descriptive notese | 322 |
aIncludes specific etiologic information, reservoirs, portal of entry/escape, mode of transmission/dissemination, susceptible hosts, incubation period, seasonal distribution, age/sex/race/religion/occupation relationships, mortality and zoonotic classification.
bLists occupations with increased potential for exposure.
cLists countries where the disease is known to occur.
dDescribes additional disease attributes not fitting other categories.
ePop-up definitions of medical terms and concepts in the knowledge base.