A web-based interactive database system for a transcranial Doppler ultrasound laboratory.
BACKGROUND
Variations in transcranial Doppler (TCD) examination performance techniques and interpretive paradigms between individual laboratories are a common challenge in the practice of TCD. Demand for rapid access to patient ultrasound examination data and report for use in intensive care settings has necessitated a more flexible approach to data management. Both of these issues may benefit from a computerized approach.


METHODS
We describe the application of a World Wide Web-based database system for use in an ultrasound laboratory. Results. Databasing information while generating a TCD report is efficient. Web accessibility allows rapid and flexible communication of time-sensitive report information and interpretation for more expeditious clinical decision making.


CONCLUSIONS
Web-based applications can extend the reach and efficiency of traditionally structured medical laboratories.
Gorman
Mark J
MJ
Brain Injury/Stroke Service, Department of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8018, USA. mark.gorman@yale.edu
Jacobs
Bradley
B
Sloan
Michael
M
Roth
Yuval
Y
Levine
Steven R
SR
D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D016494:Computer Security; D019992:Databases as Topic; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D017585:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Transcranial / Q000379:methods*; D014584:User-Computer Interface