Computerized Surveillance of Diabetic Patient/Health Care Delivery System Interfaces
- Data Processing Center and the Diabetes Teaching Service, Edward J. Meyer Memorial Hospital Buffalo, New York; and the Endocrinology Division, Department of Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo Medical School Buffalo, New York
- Address reprint requests to Paul J. Davis, E. J. Meyer Memorial Hospital, Buffalo, New York 14215.
Abstract
DIASURV is a computerized surveillance program developed to monitor the interaction of a large cohort of diabetic patients with a tertiary care institution. The input of this simple program consists of a file of diabetic patients, the daily census of hospital inpatients, and the daily census of hospital outpatients. Written in COBOL, the program consists of edit and file-maintenance components and inpatient and outpatient search components. The output is a daily listing of all inpatient (x¯ = 60) and outpatient transactions (x¯ = 20) for the cohort of 1,800 patients. The output also summarizes previous exposures of patients to specific bedside and classroom activities in diabetes education. DIASURV has a variety of applications in terms of organization of teaching efforts and facilitated access to a limited amount of patient management information.
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