title: [Information systems for clinicians I. How to know what type of patients are attended in our hospitals].
abstract: We describe a series of tools to study the types of patients treated in hospitals: the Minimum Basic Data Set (MBDS), International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and the more used patient classification system: Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) and suggest their possible applications in the fields of management and clinical research.
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Evaluación, Hospital Costa del Sol, Marbella, Málaga; Unidad CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Hospital Costa del Sol, Marbella, Málaga. ajpuente@hcs.es <ajpuente@hcs.es>
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jiménez Puente
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: García-Alegría
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lara-Blanquer
mesh_terms: D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D010361:Patients / Q000145:classification*