title: Data structure and computer program for fast interactive searches of clinical diagnoses.
abstract: Since 1987 the IDC codes of all diagnoses of patients treated in our hospital are stored in a patient-oriented (upright) database. In order to facilitate interactive searches for specific diagnoses and their combinations this database has been inverted into a data structure sorted by diagnoses. The report presented describes the data structure and the functionality of a computer program that allows very fast searches for complex combinations of diagnoses.
authors.affiliation: Klinikum Innenstadt, Medizinische Klinik, Munich, Germany.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: König
mesh_terms: D015510:Clinical Medicine; D003625:Data Collection; D003628:Database Management Systems; D016208:Databases, Factual; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups / Q000145:classification*; D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D005858:Germany; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D012984:Software