title: Issues in the design of a clinical microbiology database within an integrated hospital information system.
abstract: The LASTWORD hospital information system contains a clinical microbiology database which permits both review of patient reports and retrospective data searches using clinical and/or demographic criteria. The elements supporting this database are dictionary tables of coded phrases, a general purpose query language (Tandem ENFORM), an HL7 interface to a laboratory computer system, and long-term data storage of demographic, microbiology and other clinical data in a relational database.
authors.affiliation: PHAMIS, Inc.
authors.forename: B E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Nussbaum
mesh_terms: D002984:Clinical Laboratory Information Systems; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D008829:Microbiology; D012985:Software Design