Falcoz Pierre Emmanuel, Brunelli Alessandro
1 Strasbourg University Hospital, Strasbourg, France ; 2 St. James's University Hospital, Leeds, United Kingdom.
J Thorac Dis. 2014 May;6 Suppl 2(Suppl 2):S272-5. doi: 10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2014.04.20.
The European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS) Database is a free registry created by ESTS in 2001. The current online version was launched in 2007. It runs currently on a Dendrite platform with extensive data security and frequent backups. The main features are a specialty-specific, procedure-specific, prospectively maintained, periodically audited and web-based electronic database, designed for quality control and performance monitoring, which allows for the collection of all general thoracic procedures. Data collection is the "backbone" of the ESTS database. It includes many risk factors, processes of care and outcomes, which are specially designed for quality control and performance audit. The user can download and export their own data and use them for internal analyses and quality control audits. The ESTS database represents the gold standard of clinical data collection for European General Thoracic Surgery. Over the past years, the ESTS database has achieved many accomplishments. In particular, the database hit two major milestones: it now includes more than 235 participating centers and 70,000 surgical procedures. The ESTS database is a snapshot of surgical practice that aims at improving patient care. In other words, data capture should become integral to routine patient care, with the final objective of improving quality of care within Europe.
欧洲胸外科医师协会（ESTS）数据库是ESTS于2001年创建的一个免费注册库。当前的在线版本于2007年推出。它目前运行在一个具有广泛数据安全性和频繁备份功能的Dendrite平台上。其主要特点是一个针对特定专业、特定手术、前瞻性维护、定期审核且基于网络的电子数据库，旨在进行质量控制和性能监测，可收集所有普通胸科手术的数据。数据收集是ESTS数据库的“支柱”。它包括许多风险因素、护理过程和结果，这些都是专门为质量控制和性能审核而设计的。用户可以下载和导出自己的数据，并将其用于内部分析和质量控制审核。ESTS数据库代表了欧洲普通胸外科临床数据收集的金标准。在过去几年中，ESTS数据库取得了许多成就。特别是，该数据库达到了两个主要里程碑：目前它包括235个以上的参与中心和70000例外科手术。ESTS数据库是手术实践的一个缩影，旨在改善患者护理。换句话说，数据采集应成为常规患者护理的一部分，最终目标是提高欧洲的医疗质量。
