Integrating and presenting clinical and treatment outcome data for cost-effective case management

The broad objective was to develop an information system which integrates various sources of clinical data and facilitates outcome assessment for patients evaluated in a lumbar spine service. During a patient encounter, the physician formulates a hypothesis regarding appropriate forms of treatment a...

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Published in:Computers in biology and medicine 1997, Vol.27 (1), p.31-47
Main Authors: Westberg, Edward E., Mann, N.Horace, Spengler, Dan M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Back Pain - etiology
Biological and medical sciences
Case management
Case Management - organization & administration
Clinical Laboratory Information Systems
Computerized, statistical medical data processing and models in biomedicine
Demography
Humans
Information system
Information Systems
Low Back Pain
Lumbar Vertebrae
Medical computing and teaching
Medical sciences
Orthopaedic databases
Orthopedics - statistics & numerical data
Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care) - organization & administration
Outcome assessment
Software
Spinal Diseases - diagnosis
Spinal Diseases - therapy
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Summary:The broad objective was to develop an information system which integrates various sources of clinical data and facilitates outcome assessment for patients evaluated in a lumbar spine service. During a patient encounter, the physician formulates a hypothesis regarding appropriate forms of treatment and he or she may then use this system to explore previous treatment outcomes for similar cases. The availability of a clinical tool that presents information in an outcome-oriented format may be highly relevant to the delivery of cost-efficient, high-quality health care and also create a formal mechanism for detecting practice variability.
ISSN:0010-4825
1879-0534
DOI:10.1016/S0010-4825(96)00071-6