CHAPTER XIII

CLINICAL DATA REPOSITORIES

Essay

Name of Student Ramirez, Kesney Tatiana Mari M.

Year and Section 2E-MT
Name of Instructor Prof. Jiovanni Diaz
Date Submitted Rating
December 3, 2019

Answer the following questions in 150 words or more.

1. Can you list three most common available information in a CDR and give some
1. Can you
examples list three most common available information in a CDR and give some
of each?
example for each?
a. Patient
Text demographics - Allow the patient to be classified and categorized into
categories for statistical analysis purposes.
Example: Date of birth, gender, country, postal code, ethnicity, blood type, (A or B) +
Contact information (Name, Phone, Address), C + Emergency contact information, family
doctor, insurance provider data, (C or D) + Allergies, major diagnoses, major medical
history
b. Immunizations -The process by which an individual becomes immune or resistant to an
infectious disease, normally through vaccine administration.
Example: Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) vaccine, Varicella (chickenpox) vaccine,
Hepatitis A & B vaccine and Tetanus vaccine.
c. Allergy - An allergy to medication is defined as an immune adverse drug reaction.1
This reaction may occur in a wide variety of classes of medication including antibiotics
and narcotic
2. How analgesics.
would you explain the importance of the graphical representation feature of
Examples: Grass
a CDR in helpingand the
treephysician
pollen allergies,
carry out Dust mites
their task allergies,
more animal dander, Food
effectively?
( particularly nuts, fruit, shellfish, eggs and cows' milk ) allergies, Insect bites and stings,
Medicine allergies (including ibuprofen, aspirin and certain antibiotics), Mould ( these can
release small particles into the air that you can breathe), and household chemicals.

2. How would you explain the importance of the graphical representation feature of a
CDR in helping the physician carry out their task more effectively?

The graphical representation is a feature of CDR which converts health data into
pictorial or graphical format such as charts, graphs, full-motion videos etc. This feature
is important because it aids in simplifying wide array of information and allows for better
decision making in the healthcare facility. With the use of graphical representations,
correlation, patterns and trends can easily be revealed and recognized compared to text
based clinical data. This feature allows users to change the level of information that can
be visualized with the use of different filters which include age and gender. An example
of this is when a physician review multiple chest x-rays that were obtained over the
course of a specific period of time (days, months or years) in order to determine if a
nodule has grown. This procedure cannot be done with textual clinical data, therefore,
visualization plays a big role in patient diagnosis and the efficiency of decision-making.