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SMaHSC membership will represent a broad range of CDC expertise and perspectives and familiarity with the public health surveillance data needs, initiatives, and priorities of external stakeholders including surveillance partners (e.g., State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial partners, CSTE, APHL), Standards development organizations (SDOs) (e.g., SNOMED, LOINC) and other government agencies (e.g., Office of Management and Budget, Office of the National Coordinator).
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The Vocabulary Service provides a repository of Response Setsresponse sets, Questionsquestions, and groupings of questions (called Sections and SDP-V Surveys) that allow public health professionals to more rapidly discover, reuse or create, and deploy data collection instruments. The Vocabulary Service also provides transparency across published content from multiple programs and enables use of harmonized Questions questions and Response Setsresponse sets. The goal of the Vocabulary Service is to facilitate discovery and reuse of existing vocabulary content, thereby reducing the number of different ways the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) asks for the same type of information across programs and surveillance systems. This will help to reduce state, tribal, local, and territorial (STLT) partner reporting burden, as well as drive towards harmonization in data collection instruments.
Content that can be marked as “preferred” in the Vocabulary Service includes response sets, questions, sections (groupings of questions) or SDP-V surveys (grouping of sections). Content that has been Preferred content in the Vocabulary Service is selected through an established process as the way CDC prefers to collect data for particular concept is considered preferred in the Vocabulary Service. Designating content as preferred helps to standardize surveys and other data collection efforts, which reduces the response burden of CDC partners and simplifies data collection, analysis, and reporting.
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Every proposal to designate content in the Vocabulary Service as “preferred” will be submitted to SMaHSC on a standard form. See Appendix A for a sample.
The standard form will explain why the content should be flagged preferred. Supporting artifacts such as a harmonization work group report might be included. Artifacts should include the business case for the preferred standard, the problem it solves, and the proposed SDP-V specification. It will list all known key stakeholders who will be affected by the change. It is likely that the key stakeholders were part of the harmonization work group that made the recommendation to begin with. It may include programs, individuals, systems, or documents. Forms lacking a mandatory field will be returned to the proposer. An example of sample form for the a SDP-V Preferred "preferred" proposal is pictured below.
- Draft Sample “Preferred” Content Proposal Form
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- SDP Vocabulary Service “Preferred” Workflow
[1] https://sdp-v.services.cdc.gov