The Gaps in the Terminological Representation of the ACORN Social Determinants of Health Survey

Melissa P. Resnick; Diane Montella; Wilmon McCray; Steven H. Brown; Keith E. Campbell; Jonathan Nebeker; Frank LeHouillier; Peter L. Elkin

The Gaps in the Terminological Representation of the ACORN Social Determinants of Health Survey

Melissa P. Resnick
, Diane Montella
, Wilmon McCray
, Steven H. Brown
, Keith E. Campbell
, Jonathan Nebeker
, Frank LeHouillier
, Peter L. Elkin

Department of Biomedical Informatics

SUNY Buffalo
Department of Veterans Affairs

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Abstract

Objective: Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) greatly influence health outcomes and healthcare utilization. Tools, such as the Assessing Circumstances & Offering Resources for Needs (ACORN) survey, have been developed to screen for SDOH. The purpose of this study is to determine the level of terminological representation of the ACORN survey by the Solor terminology. Methods: Each ACORN survey question was read to determine its concepts. Next, Solor was searched for each of the concepts and for the appropriate attributes. If no attributes or concepts existed, they were created. Then, each question's concepts and attributes were arranged into subject-relation-object triples. Results: Eleven unique attributes and 18 unique concepts were created. These results demonstrate a gap in representing SDOH with terminologies. We believe that using the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) machinery to fill this gap will assist in bringing together the concepts to better represent SDOH.

Original language	English
Journal	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume	3805
State	Published - 2022
Event	13th International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, ICBO 2022 - Ann Arbor, United States Duration: Sep 25 2022 → Sep 28 2022

Keywords

ACORN Screening Tool
Social Determinants of Health
Solor Terminology

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