Gregg T A, Boyd D H
Dental Department, Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland..
Int J Paediatr Dent. 1996 Mar;6(1):45-51. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-263x.1996.tb00207.x.
This paper reports the development and function of a computer program for clinical audit of outpatients in hospital paediatric dentistry in the United Kingdom. The project was one of several national audit projects supported by the Faculty of Dental Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons of England, and funded by the Department of Health. The software is designed to record data utilizing a nationally-agreed minimum set of codes for dental diagnosis, treatment and medical complications, together with patient demographic details pertaining to source of referral, age and sex of patient, and area of residence. A significant component of the software is a flexible report generator which allows data to be analysed using any combination of the above criteria. Audit of activity in hospital dentistry is desirable to enable comparisons to be made between groups of patients and treatments related to diagnosis. This provides the information necessary to enable improvements in clinical practice whilst also assisting the development of both local and national clinical guidelines. Use of this software package will enable such comparisons to be made not only within one hospital but also between different hospital and regions in the United Kingdom.
本文报告了一款用于英国医院儿科牙科门诊临床审计的计算机程序的开发及功能。该项目是由英国皇家外科医学院牙科外科学会支持、卫生部资助的多个全国性审计项目之一。该软件旨在利用一套全国统一的、用于牙科诊断、治疗及医疗并发症的最少代码集，以及与转诊来源、患者年龄和性别以及居住地区相关的患者人口统计学详细信息来记录数据。该软件的一个重要组成部分是一个灵活的报告生成器，它允许使用上述任何标准组合来分析数据。对医院牙科活动进行审计有助于对患者群体以及与诊断相关的治疗进行比较。这为改进临床实践提供了必要信息，同时也有助于制定地方和国家临床指南。使用该软件包不仅能够在一家医院内部进行此类比较，还能在英国不同医院和地区之间进行比较。
