title: Clinical patient information capture: the Columbia/HCA cancer care database experience.
abstract: Development of a cancer care database and interpretation of its contents will provide extensive information about a set of patients with a particular disease. By defining disease by stage, its associated costs of diagnosis, treatment and long term follow-up, patient outcomes and self-reported satisfaction and quality of life, a foundation for disease management evolves. Utilizing documented experience over the continuum of cancer care provides a stronger foundation for standards of care and critical pathway development as well as enhancing risk sharing capabilities in providing care for a set of cancer patients. Extensive data collection and analysis has been identified as the key to successful disease management. With the Columbia/HCA Cancer Care Database and future strategic initiatives, the development of an oncology disease management approach is aggressively moving forward.
authors.affiliation: Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation, Nashville, TN, USA.
authors.forename: P H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Stanfill
authors.forename: D G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Weber
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wayne
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking; D016208:Databases, Factual; D003710:Demography; D019468:Disease Management; D006777:Hospitals, Proprietary; D006801:Humans; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009313:National Health Programs; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000145:classification / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D016522:Oncology Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D012042:Registries; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology