title: [Utilization of clinical database for quality improvement in health care].
abstract: Measurement and feedback of clinical performance is one of the important activities in clinical database. In addition, clinical database is used for developing medical guidelines, research for public policy and clinical research, and also various kinds of information can be provided to the public. On the other hand, risk adjustment for data analysis is a key issue in the clinical database. From these viewpoints, this article described the activities for quality improvement, examples of research, and planning of clinical research using the clinical database.
authors.affiliation: Department of Healthcare Quality Assessment, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Ai
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tomotaki
authors.forename: Hiroaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Miyata
authors.forename: Suguru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Okubo
authors.forename: Noboru
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Motomura
authors.forename: Arata
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Murakami
authors.forename: Minoru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ono
authors.forename: Tadashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Iwanaka
mesh_terms: D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D016208:Databases, Factual / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D058996:Quality Improvement; D012107:Research Design; D016896:Treatment Outcome