A Medical Data Dictionary for Decision Support Applications

Building and maintaining clinically-based medical information systems is a complex task. Advances in database management technologies, including the concept of a data dictionary, have helped support this process. A medical data dictionary is described with discussions on the role of data dictionarie...

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Hauptverfasser: Huff, S.M., Craig, R.B., Gould, B.L., Castagno, D.L., Smilan, R.E.
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Zusammenfassung:Building and maintaining clinically-based medical information systems is a complex task. Advances in database management technologies, including the concept of a data dictionary, have helped support this process. A medical data dictionary is described with discussions on the role of data dictionaries within a medical information system and the conceptual model supported by the AT&T CareComm (TM) data dictionary. Additionally, a high level overview of features that we deemed important to support a medical information system with integrated decision support capabilities is presented.
ISSN:0195-4210