Component 9/Unit 4

Assignments

Assignment 1: Go to the NCI URL and explore the tools that are available. Choose 5 clinical data elements. Are they included in caDSR?

Solution:

  • CDE Browser: Start with this tool to explore the contents of the caDSR. The tool supports browsing, searching, and exporting CDEs within or across contexts. You do not need an account to use the CDE Browser.
  • UML Model Browser: Use this tool to browse and search UML Models loaded in the caDSR. This allows users to find Administered Items that are part of registered UML models. You do not need an account to use the UML Model Browser.
  • caDSR Freestyle Search: Use this tool to perform weighted semantic searches on the content of Administered Items in the caDSR. The search terms and phrases need not exactly match items in the database. Information about items searched and results is available on the Freestyle Search wiki page.
  • CDE Curation Tool: Context administrators use this tool to create and edit Data Element Concepts, Value Domains, and Data Elements. An account is required to create and edit, and you must have curatorial authority for your Context. No login is required to query CDEs and their components. Searching for CDEs using a concept is now supported.
  • Form Builder: Use this tool to organize CDEs in forms that replicate the content of Case Report Forms and other forms.
  • Semantic Integration Workbench (SIW): Use SIW to help in adding consistent metadata to a UML model by matching its concepts with similar items from the NCI Thesaurus. This is a prerequisite to running the UML Loader.
  • caDSR Sentinel Tool: Use this tool to create and manage Alert Definitions for the caDSR database, in order to receive email alerts and thus monitor changes to Administered Items. Information about what is monitored and reported and how reports may be set up is available on the caDSR Sentinel Tool wiki page.
  • caDSR Administration Tool: Context and central caDSR administrators use this tool as the main administrative interface to all caDSR features and components. You must have an account to use this tool and appropriate privileges for each function. This tool is accessible only within the NIH intranet.

Assignment 2: Using the outline for a CDA, create a section for reporting a height and a weight measurement.

Solution: There are different ways of answering this question. The simplest answer is just to use text.

<physical examination>

<height> “68 inches” </height>

<weight> “175 pounds” </weight>

</physical examination>

Other solutions could look up a LOINC code, separate value and units.

Component 9/Unit 4Health IT Workforce Curriculum 1

Version 2.0/Spring 2011

This material was developed by Duke University, funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology under Award Number IU24OC000024.