title: Development and implementation of a pediatric cardiac anesthesia/intensive care database.
abstract: Systematic collection and electronic storage of data can assist in improving quality and efficiency of patient care and can provide a data set to interrogate for subsequent performance improvement and clinical research purposes. In this article, an electronic perioperative pediatric cardiac surgery database to be used by a multidisciplinary care team was designed, developed, and implemented. Technical goals for the design included low cost, rapid development and implementation, adequate security, and potential for internal and external distribution. Implementation of the described database has proved to be invaluable for quality assurance and statistical analysis of data relevant to patient care. From the overall positive experience, it was concluded that the electronic data management does not always need major cost investment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York 10029, USA. alexander.mittnacht@msnyuhealth.org
authors.forename: Alexander Jc
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Mittnacht
authors.forename: David B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Wax
authors.forename: Shubikha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Srivastava
authors.forename: Khanh
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.forename: Umesh
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Joashi
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002648:Child; D003422:Critical Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003628:Database Management Systems; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D010351:Patient Discharge; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*