Menck H R, Blankenship C, Fremgen A M
American College of Surgeons, Chicago, IL, USA.
Top Health Inf Manage. 1997 Feb;17(3):45-59.
The National Cancer Data Base (NCDB) is a nationwide outcomes database for oncology presently including 1,600 hospitals in 50 states. Half of all U.S. cancer cases are accessioned annually. It is important for U.S. clinicians and health information management professionals to become familiar with the NCDB to increase the usefulness of this comparative database in their hospital quality assurance programs. The NCDB's unique characteristics include its implementation by clinicians, its provision of access to data from hospitals participating in the Approvals Program of the Commission on Cancer, and its affiliation with a 2,200-member national physician network. The NCDB annual data are augmented by patient care evaluation studies, which provide a capability for cross-sectional surveys with an expanded data set. The NCDB has participated in the significant data standardization effort for U.S. cancer registries. The procedures used maintain confidentiality of the patient, physician, and participating hospital, and physical access to the data files is limited. The three primary products of the NCDB are hospital comparative reports, state and local reports, and scientific reports.
国家癌症数据库（NCDB）是一个全国性的肿瘤学结局数据库，目前涵盖美国50个州的1600家医院。每年录入全美一半的癌症病例。美国临床医生和健康信息管理专业人员熟悉NCDB很重要，这样能提高这个比较数据库在其医院质量保证项目中的实用性。NCDB的独特之处包括由临床医生实施、提供对参与癌症委员会审批项目的医院数据的访问，以及与一个由2200名成员组成的全国医生网络相关联。NCDB的年度数据通过患者护理评估研究得到扩充，这些研究提供了使用扩展数据集进行横断面调查的能力。NCDB参与了美国癌症登记处的重大数据标准化工作。所采用的程序对患者、医生和参与医院保密，对数据文件的实际访问受到限制。NCDB的三个主要产品是医院比较报告、州和地方报告以及科学报告。
