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Methods Inf Med 1987; 26(02): 97-101
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1635485
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A Computerized Information System for a Pain Clinic

Ein computergestütztes Informationssystem für Schmerzkliniken
J. Hildebrandt
1   (From the Göttingen University Hospital, Departments of Anesthesiology and of Medical Informatics)
,
R. Klar
1   (From the Göttingen University Hospital, Departments of Anesthesiology and of Medical Informatics)
,
A. Weyland
1   (From the Göttingen University Hospital, Departments of Anesthesiology and of Medical Informatics)
,
J. U. Wieding
1   (From the Göttingen University Hospital, Departments of Anesthesiology and of Medical Informatics)
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16 February 2018 (online)

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Summary

The concept of the pain clinic constitutes a recent medical development requiring a thorough documentation of patient-related data in order to achieve reasonable standards in diagnosis and treatment, to ensure that the follow-up maintains these standards and to supply necessary data for research on the epidemiology, etiology, and therapy of chronic pain. We, therefore, developed a set of medical questionnaires for pain patients together with a microcomputer system for the storage and analysis of the data obtained. The main features of our approach are the problem-oriented medical records, the multi-user system and the immediate availability of the supplied data to every therapist using the system.

Schmerzkliniken sind relativ neue medizinische Institutionen, die eine besonders sorgfältige Dokumentation der Krankengeschichten von Schmerzpatienten benötigen, um den hohen Anforderungen einer Qualitätssicherung gerecht zu werden, die Organisation der Nachsorge von typischen chronischen Schmerzpatienten zu unterstützen und epidemiologische, ätiologische und therapiebezogene Forschung zu ermöglichen.

Wir entwickelten daher einen Satz von Erhebungsformularen für Schmerzpatienten und ein Micro-Computer-System zur Verarbeitung der hierdurch anfallenden Daten. Die Besonderheiten unseres Verfahrens sind das problemorientierte Krankenblatt, das Mehrplatz-System und die relativ starke Einbeziehung der Therapeuten in die Systemnutzung.

Key-Words

Pain Clinic - Multi-User System - Micro-Computer - Problem-Oriented Medical Record

Schlüssel-Wörter

Schmerzklinik - Mehrplatz-System - Micro-Computer - problemorientiertes Krankenblatt
 

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