Subhani Shazia, Al-Rubeaan Khalid
Head-Registries Core Facility, Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Scientific Computing, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, and University Diabetes Center, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
J Diabetes Sci Technol. 2010 Nov 1;4(6):1574-82. doi: 10.1177/193229681000400635.
Given that diabetes is an extremely common disorder in Saudi Arabia, the National Diabetes Registry was designed by King Saud University Hospital Diabetes Center in collaboration with King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in the year 2001. The aim of the registry is to identify risk factors related to diabetes and to provide statistics to public health programs and health care professionals for use in planning and evaluation. The registry was designed to provide information on the extent and nature of specific types of diabetes, diabetes complications, and treatment of diabetes in the Kingdom. The registry has been available since 2001, with major collaborations from 26 hospitals as part of Phase I in which 100,000 patient data is to be collected on a regional level from Ar-Riyadh before extending the program to other regions of Saudi Arabia.
The web application was designed using relational database techniques along with on-line help topics to assist users to get acquainted with application functionalities. All Internet forms were designed with validation checks and appropriate messages to ensure quality of data. The security measures established within the application ensure that only authorized users can gain access to the functionalities of the registry at allowed times. Administrative features were designed to manage the registry-related operations easily.
The diabetes registry has been in operation for almost 10 years, and around 67,000 patients have been registered to date. The Web-application offers an anytime-anywhere access to the registry's data, removing geographical boundaries and allowing the national registry to provide real-time data entry, updates, reporting, and mapping functionalities more easily.
Merging related information in the form of databases can provide improved health care operations through instant access to data, ease of managing complex data structures, and creation of reports to be used by health care planners and hospital administrators.
鉴于糖尿病在沙特阿拉伯是一种极为常见的疾病，沙特国王大学医院糖尿病中心与沙特阿拉伯利雅得的法赫德国王专科医院及研究中心于2001年合作设计了国家糖尿病登记系统。该登记系统的目的是识别与糖尿病相关的风险因素，并为公共卫生项目和医疗保健专业人员提供统计数据，以供规划和评估使用。该登记系统旨在提供有关沙特王国特定类型糖尿病的范围和性质、糖尿病并发症以及糖尿病治疗的信息。自2001年以来，该登记系统一直可用，作为第一阶段，有26家医院进行了主要合作，在此阶段，将在利雅得地区层面收集100,000例患者数据，之后再将该项目扩展至沙特阿拉伯的其他地区。
使用关系数据库技术以及在线帮助主题设计了该网络应用程序，以帮助用户熟悉应用程序功能。所有互联网表单都设计了验证检查和适当的消息，以确保数据质量。应用程序内建立的安全措施确保只有授权用户才能在允许的时间访问登记系统的功能。管理功能的设计便于轻松管理与登记系统相关的操作。
糖尿病登记系统已运行近10年，迄今已登记约67,000例患者。该网络应用程序可随时随地访问登记系统的数据，消除了地理界限，使国家登记系统能够更轻松地提供实时数据录入、更新、报告和映射功能。
以数据库形式合并相关信息可以通过即时访问数据、便于管理复杂数据结构以及创建供医疗保健规划人员和医院管理人员使用的报告来改善医疗保健运营。
