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Indian J Palliat Care. 2011 Jan;17:S2-3. doi: 10.4103/0973-1075.76229.

Computerized clinical database development in oncology.

Indian journal of palliative care

Svs Deo

Affiliations

  1. Department of Surgical Oncology, IRCH All India Institute of Medical sciences, New Delhi, India.

PMID: 21811362 PMCID: PMC3140081 DOI: 10.4103/0973-1075.76229

Abstract

In the era of evidence based medicine documentation of clinical data is extremely important. The field of Health informatics is a discipline at the intersection of information science, computer science and health science. Current health informatics field is mainly catering to the general needs of hospital setups. Development of disease / organ/ specialty based computerized clinical data base is still in its infancy and there is a need for clinicians to actively involve in this field to generate authentic and analyzable clinical data. In this article we present our experience of computerized oncology clinical data base development.

Keywords: Computerized clinical data base; Health informatics; Oncology

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