title: An XML-based integration method for different types of patient data in cardiology.
abstract: Clinical data consist of a wide variety of information. Database software that covers all types of clinical data is ideal. Patient data in cardiology were converted into an XML-format by tags that cardiologist selected. The structure of the database was comprehensible to the cardiologists. The arbitrary queries to the database from the end-users were captured with a resultant high satisfaction.
authors.affiliation: Medical Informatics Center, Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai, Japan.
authors.forename: Masaharu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nakayama
authors.forename: Akiko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shibuya
authors.forename: Ryusuke
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Inoue
authors.forename: Atsushi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ohsaga
authors.forename: Yoshiaki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kondo
mesh_terms: D002309:Cardiology; D003628:Database Management Systems; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D011381:Programming Languages; D018511:Systems Integration