Data warehousing as a tool for quality management in oncology.
At present, physicians are constrained by their limited skills to integrate and understand the growing amount of electronic medical information. To handle, extract, integrate, analyse and take advantage of the gathered information regarding the quality of patient care, the concept of a data warehouse seems to be especially interesting in medicine. Medical data warehousing allows the physicians to take advantage of all the operational data they have been collecting over the years. Our purpose is to build a data warehouse in order to use all available information about cancer patients. We think that with the sensible use of this tool, there are economic benefits for the Society and an improvement of quality of medical care for patients.
Hölzer
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Institute of Medical Informatics, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany.
Tafazzoli
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Altmann
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Wächter
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Dudeck
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D000553:Ambulatory Care; D003628:Database Management Systems; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D017749:Total Quality Management