[Electronic clinical and surgical database of retina and vitreous diseases].
OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this study is to build an automated clinical and surgical database which works with a computer-based program (software), where patients with 19 selected retina and vitreous diseases are included.


METHODS
Textbooks from both international and national authors served as a basic structure for the protocol. Specific articles related to each disease, extracted from scientific journals and from specific clinical database sources, searched on the World Wide Web (the internet) were used, as well. Data automation was done by interface with SINPE (Integrated electronic protocol system) - a software developed at the Informatics and Multimedia Laboratory of the Health Sciences Department at the Universidade Federal do Paraná.


RESULTS
Along with the data automation the master protocol was created covering all contents in main folders, followed by 19 specific protocols which refer to individual specifications for each disease. The program allows to collect and record data from patients with their clinical characteristics, diagnostic aids, selected treatment as well as follow-up treatment. Likewise, any source of interest in the protocol can be crossed with the Microsoft Excel program depending on the type of study.


CONCLUSIONS
The objective of this study which was to create a wide and updated database of vitreoretinal pathologies of major importance, converting them to a specific software and interfacing it with the SINPE has been achieved.
Zago Filho
Luiz Alberto
LA
Universidade do Planalto Catarinense, Lages, SC, Brasil. luzago@gmail.com
Malafaia
Osvaldo
O
Moreira
Ana Tereza Ramos
AT
Matias
Jorge Eduardo Fouto
JE
D002985:Clinical Protocols; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D012164:Retinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D012984:Software; D014822:Vitreous Body / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery