title: [Research and development of medical case database: a novel medical case information system integrating with biospecimen management].
abstract: To meet the needs of management of medical case information and biospecimen simultaneously, we developed a novel medical case information system integrating with biospecimen management. The database established by MS SQL Server 2000 covered, basic information, clinical diagnosis, imaging diagnosis, pathological diagnosis and clinical treatment of patient; physicochemical property, inventory management and laboratory analysis of biospecimen; users log and data maintenance. The client application developed by Visual C++ 6.0 was used to implement medical case and biospecimen management, which was based on Client/Server model. This system can perform input, browse, inquest, summary of case and related biospecimen information, and can automatically synthesize case-records based on the database. Management of not only a long-term follow-up on individual, but also of grouped cases organized according to the aim of research can be achieved by the system. This system can improve the efficiency and quality of clinical researches while biospecimens are used coordinately. It realizes synthesized and dynamic management of medical case and biospecimen, which may be considered as a new management platform.
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China. sypan@njmu.edu.cn
authors.forename: Shiyang
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.forename: Yuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Mu
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Tong
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Peijun
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Jianfeng
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Bing
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.forename: Lujiang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yi
mesh_terms: D018070:Biological Specimen Banks; D003628:Database Management Systems; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D008501:Medical Records, Problem-Oriented