COVID-19 Surveillance in a Primary Care Sentinel Network: In-Pandemic Development of an Application Ontology.

Journal: JMIR public health and surveillance
Published Date: Nov 17, 2020

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Creating an ontology for COVID-19 surveillance should help ensure transparency and consistency. Ontologies formalize conceptualizations at either the domain or application level. Application ontologies cross domains and are specified through testable use cases. Our use case was an extension of the role of the Oxford Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Research and Surveillance Centre (RSC) to monitor the current pandemic and become an in-pandemic research platform.

Authors

  • Simon De Lusignan
    University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
  • Harshana Liyanage
    University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. h.s.liyanage@surrey.ac.uk.
  • Dylan McGagh
    Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
  • Bhautesh Dinesh Jani
    General Practice and Primary Care, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
  • Jorgen Bauwens
    University Children's Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
  • Rachel Byford
    Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
  • Dai Evans
    PRIMIS, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
  • Tom Fahey
    Department of General Practice, Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Trisha Greenhalgh
    Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
  • Nicholas Jones
    GW Research, Ltd., Histon, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.
  • Frances S Mair
    General Practice and Primary Care, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
  • Cecilia Okusi
    Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
  • Vaishnavi Parimalanathan
    Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
  • Jill P Pell
    Institute of Health & Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.
  • Julian Sherlock
    Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
  • Oscar Tamburis
    Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Productions, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy.
  • Manasa Tripathy
    Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
  • Filipa Ferreira
    Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
  • John Williams
    Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
  • F D Richard Hobbs
    Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

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