Development of a clinical data warehouse from an intensive care clinical information system.
There are relatively few institutions that have developed clinical data warehouses, containing patient data from the point of care. Because of the various care practices, data types and definitions, and the perceived incompleteness of clinical information systems, the development of a clinical data warehouse is a challenge. In order to deal with managerial and clinical information needs, as well as educational and research aims that are important in the setting of a university hospital, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands, developed a data warehouse incrementally. In this paper we report on the in-house development of an integral part of the data warehouse specifically for the intensive care units (ICU-DWH). It was modeled using Atos Origin Metadata Frame method. The paper describes the methodology, the development process and the content of the ICU-DWH, and discusses the need for (clinical) data warehouses in intensive care.
de Mul
Marleen
M
Erasmus University, Institute of Health Policy and Management, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands. demul@bmg.eur.nl
Alons
Peter
P
van der Velde
Peter
P
Konings
Ilse
I
Bakker
Jan
J
Hazelzet
Jan
J
D003422:Critical Care; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000592:standards*; D009426:Netherlands