Martin Greg S
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, Emory University School of Medicine, 49 Jesse Hill Jr Drive SE, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA.
Crit Care. 2008;12(5):176. doi: 10.1186/cc6993. Epub 2008 Sep 1.
Medical databases serve a critical function in healthcare, including the areas of patient care, administration, research and education. The quality and breadth of information collected into existing databases varies tremendously, between databases, between institutions and between national boundaries. The field of critical care medicine could be advanced substantially by the development of comprehensive and accurate databases.
医学数据库在医疗保健中发挥着关键作用,涵盖患者护理、管理、研究和教育等领域。现有数据库所收集信息的质量和广度在不同数据库、不同机构以及不同国界之间存在巨大差异。通过开发全面且准确的数据库,重症医学领域可得到显著推进。