Digital Analysis of Clinical Screening Criteria for a Rare Disease - Behcet's Disease

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2023 Jun 29:305:444-447. doi: 10.3233/SHTI230527.

Abstract

The objective is to identify clinical screening criteria for a rare disease,- Behcet's disease and to analyse the digitally structured and unstructured components of the Identified Clinical criteria, build a clinical archetype using OpenEHR editor to be used by learning health support systems for clinical screening of the disease. Methods/Search Strategy: Literature search was conducted, 230 papers were screened, and finally 5 papers were retained, analysed and summarised. Digital Analysis of the clinical criteria was done and a sandardised clinical knowledge model of the same was built using OpenEHR editor, underpinned by OpenEHR international standards. Results The structured and unstructured components of the criteria analysed to be able to incorporate them in a learning health system to screen patients for Behcet's disease. SNOMED CT and Read codes were assigned to the structured componenets. Possible misdiagnosis were identified, along with their corresponding clinical terminology codes that can be incorporated in the Electronic Health Record systems. Conclusion: The identified clinical screening was digitally analysed which can be embedded into a clinical decision support system that can be plugged onto the primary care systems to give an alert to the clinicians if a patient needs to be screened for a rare disease, for e.g., Behcet's.

Keywords: Behcet’s disease; EHR; clinical screening criteria; rare disease.

MeSH terms

  • Behcet Syndrome* / diagnosis
  • Decision Support Systems, Clinical*
  • Humans
  • Knowledge
  • Learning Health System*
  • Rare Diseases / diagnosis