| Autor: |
Graber, Stanley E1, Seneker, John A1, Stahl, Archie A1, Franklin, Karen O1, Neel, Thomas E1, Miller, Randolph A1, Graber, S E2 (AUTHOR), Seneker, J A (AUTHOR), Stahl, A A (AUTHOR), Franklin, K O (AUTHOR), Neel, T E (AUTHOR), Miller, R A (AUTHOR) |
| Zdroj: |
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Mar1996, Vol. 3 Issue 2, p149-156. 8p. 3 Diagrams, 2 Charts. |
| Abstrakt: |
This case report describes development and testing of a method to extract clinical information stored in the Veterans Affairs (VA) Decentralized Hospital Computer System (DHCP) for the purpose of analyzing data about groups of patients. The authors used a microcomputer-based, structured query language (SQL)-compatible, relational database system to replicate a subset of the Nashville VA Hospital's DHCP patient database. This replicated database contained the complete current Nashville DHCP prescription, provider, patient, and drug data sets, and a subset of the laboratory data. A pilot project employed this replicated database to answer questions that might arise in drug-use evaluation, such as identification of cases of polypharmacy, suboptimal drug regimens, and inadequate laboratory monitoring of drug therapy. These database queries included as candidates for review all prescriptions for all outpatients. The queries demonstrated that specific drug-use events could be identified for any time interval represented in the replicated database. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Databáze: |
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts |
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