Medical databases

Comprehensive reviews of medical databases (105) and health and toxicological information systems (106), including search aids in each field, appeared in ARIST pubHcations in 1983 and 1990. Toxicology information was reviewed in 1983 (103) and medical and health information in 1990 (100). Reviews of electronic government information (107) and engineering information systems (108) have also been pubHshed and provide an expansion of database knowledge for readers who require crossover information in these fields. 

Depending on the degree of specialization involved in the subject being studied, a number of other databases may prove useful, especially general medical databases. These include ... 

D.C U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, 2000. Also available online. URL http //etoh.niaaa.nih.gOv/AODVoll/Aodthome.htm. This is an outline and list of terms used by researchers in the field. Looking up the appropriate terms can help with retrieving materials from scientific and medical databases such as MEDLINE. 

Figure 6. Levels of sophistication in medical image processing. Medical database, pattern recognition and artificial intelligence will be major research topics in the 1990s.

Basic pharmacokinetic/dynamic information can be found in a number of common sources such as the BNF, the SPC for the drug (or equivalent data if outside the UK), Martindale The Complete Drug Reference and AHFS Drug Information [1,3,4]. There are other books, such as Therapeutic Drugs, edited by C. Dollery, which may give more detailed information [2]. Other useful sources include online pharmacy and medical databases, bibliographic databases to identify relevant published material, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. 

I was in our local hospital ER recently having my hand looked at (I had cut it pretty badly on some glass). The receptionist who examined me asked me a few questions and filled out a report in the medical database on her computer. When she had finished asking me questions, she got up to get the printout from her laser printer. 

Note that antithrombin does not mean the same thing as antithrombotic agent (though it is used in this wider sense in some medical databases). 

It may be noted that some medical databases refer to antithrombotic agents as ANTITHROMBINS. This is not an exact use of the term as antithrombins, mechanistically, are a subtype of anticoagulants. 

The development of medical databases able to be interrogated using (geographically) distributed software applications ... 

In an observational cohort study using national medical databases in Denmark, patients who had received a prescription for lithium at least once (n = 16 238) had a higher rate of subsequent dementia than those who had never used lithium (n = 1 487 1 77) (RR = 1.47 95% Cl = 1.22,... 

For evaluation designed progress and method was using test behaviour of ECG signals in digital form which was downloaded from medical database of clinical electrocardiography records - Physionet (http //www.physionet.org/ physiobank/database/). 

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