title: Requirements and design aspects of a data model for a data dictionary in paediatric oncology.
abstract: German children suffering from cancer are mostly treated within the framework of multicentre clinical trials. An important task of conducting these trials is an extensive information and knowledge exchange, which has to be based on a standardised documentation. To support this effort, it is the aim of a nationwide project to define a standardised terminology that should be used by clinical trials for therapy documentation. In order to support terminology maintenance we are currently developing a data dictionary. In this paper we describe requirements and design aspects of the data model used for the data dictionary as first results of our research. We compare it with other terminology systems.
authors.affiliation: University of Heidelberg, Department of Medical Informatics, Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Merzweiler
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Knaup
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Creutzig
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ehlerding
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Haux
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Mludek
authors.forename: F H
authors.initials: FH
authors.lastname: Schilling
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Weber
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wiedemann
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D004018:Dictionaries, Medical as Topic; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008492:Medical Informatics Computing; D008495:Medical Oncology; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D010372:Pediatrics; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled