Development and implementation of a pediatric cardiac anesthesia/intensive care database. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Systematic collection and electronic storage of data can assist in improving quality and efficiency of patient care and can provide a data set to interrogate for subsequent performance improvement and clinical research purposes. In this article, an electronic perioperative pediatric cardiac surgery database to be used by a multidisciplinary care team was designed, developed, and implemented. Technical goals for the design included low cost, rapid development and implementation, adequate security, and potential for internal and external distribution. Implementation of the described database has proved to be invaluable for quality assurance and statistical analysis of data relevant to patient care. From the overall positive experience, it was concluded that the electronic data management does not always need major cost investment.

publication date

  • April 7, 2008

Research

keywords

  • Anesthesia
  • Anesthesiology
  • Critical Care
  • Databases, Factual
  • Pediatrics

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 42449118399

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1177/1089253208316445

PubMed ID

  • 18397903

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 12

issue

  • 1