HIS-based Kaplan-Meier plots--a single source approach for documenting and reusing routine survival information.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Survival or outcome information is important for clinical routine as well as for clinical research and should be collected completely, timely and precisely. This information is relevant for multiple usages including quality control, clinical trials, observational studies and epidemiological registries. However, the local hospital information system (HIS) does not support this documentation and therefore this data has to generated by paper based or spreadsheet methods which can result in redundantly documented data. Therefore we investigated, whether integrating the follow-up documentation of different departments in the HIS and reusing it for survival analysis can enable the physician to obtain survival curves in a timely manner and to avoid redundant documentation.

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SUBMITTER: Breil B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3053219 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature