title: Reporting of drug allergies for use in a national decision support system.
abstract: In Denmark, there are plans for establishing a national decision support system, providing on-line support for physicians during drug prescribing. This includes establishment of a national database containing information about each patient's drug allergies. Allergy information already exists in medication modules in hospital systems and primary care systems and thus constitutes a potential source for the national allergy database. This paper reports an analysis of local data structure, content and registration policies with the aim to re-use existing allergy data. The result of the analysis is that due to lack of harmonisation most existing cannot be re-used in the national database. The paper propose a common dataset for allergy data where national and international standards were considered.
authors.affiliation: MEDIQ - Medical Informatics and Quality Management, Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors.forename: Knut
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bernstein
mesh_terms: D016907:Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D066289:Data Curation / Q000379:methods; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003718:Denmark / Q000453:epidemiology; D004342:Drug Hypersensitivity / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004360:Drug Therapy, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D055695:Electronic Prescribing; D005568:Forms and Records Control / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D019221:Mandatory Reporting; D050316:Medical Order Entry Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000379:methods