Creating Disease Records

Public health professionals create disease records with related informational files. For more information, see Adding Details to Disease Records.

They can associate a disease record with the following information:

• Case records detailing individual or group outbreaks

• Frequently asked questions (FAQs) about the disease that they might publish and use internally

• Medications, with dosage information

• Service requests

• Training courses about disease management and epidemiology

• Attachments, such as digital X-ray files, photographs of symptoms, and microscopic renderings

This task is a step in Process of Managing Public Health Cases.

To create a disease record

1. Navigate to the Diseases screen, then the Disease List view.

2. Create a new record, and complete the fields as appropriate.

   The following table describes some of the fields.

   Field	Description
   Name	Type the name of the disease.
   Category	Select the category for the disease. Values include Biological - A, Biological - B, Biological - C, Chemical - Blister/Vesicants, Chemical - Blood, and Chemical - Choking/Lung.
   Status	Displays a worldwide status of Active for the disease. Values include Active, Current Outbreak, Eliminated, and Rare.
   Overview	Type a high-level abstract of the disease.
   Diagnosis	Type the methods, signs, and symptoms that identify a disease.
   Surveillance	Select this check box to track the disease. The agency must define a workflow that specifies what happens when users create cases for disease records flagged for surveillance. The workflow can result in raising the priority of the case and sending notification. For more information about workflows, see Siebel Business Process Framework: Workflow Guide.
   Expert	Displays the ID of the user who creates the disease record. You can assign additional in-house experts to the disease record but designate only one user as the primary in-house expert for the disease.
   Last Updated	Displays the date and time that you update the record.
   Symptoms	Type the biological manifestations that indicate the presence of the disease.
   Incubation Period	Type the period between the pathogen infection of an individual and the manifestation of the disease the pathogen causes.
   Response	Type the recommended precautions to curtail the spread of the disease.