Capturing and using clinical outcome data: implications for information systems design.
There is an urgent need to capture and record data related to clinical outcomes, but there are many barriers. The range of problems includes lack of agreement on conceptualization of the term "outcome," inadequate measures of outcomes, and inadequate information systems to capture and manipulate data that would reflect outcomes. This article focuses on information system requirements to capture, store, and utilize clinical outcome data. For greatest accuracy, outcome data [...]
Author(s): Zielstorff, R D
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1995.95338872