Establishment And Clinical Use Of CHD Database

Accompanied with the development of computer science, database management system becomes the solitary subject, and database has been enrolled in many fields. Using database in clinical practice to manage and analyze t numerous information is an innovation. Clinical database provides a new way to evaluate the overall process and improve the results of the broader system of patient care. Exploring questions arising from these data can identify system issues, which are invisible to individual practitioners or specialist using other traditional review methods. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons established National Database in 1989,since then more than 450 centers have been enrolled in the project, 1340000 cases have been harvested. Among them 80% procedures are CABG procedures. Outcome from this first generation database demonstrated the strengths of a clinical database. Unlike the STS adult cardiac surgery database, the congenital heart surgery database has numerous disease entities to analyze, and by the nature of the subspecialty requires increased complexity in data analysis in order to produce meaningful risk stratification.Using Visual FoxPro 6.0 as developing tools to process a congenital heart surgery database software is the first step of this subject. The...