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Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS)
A set of numbers used in a trauma registry to indicate the nature and severity of injuries by body system
Abstracting
1. The process of extracting information from a document to create a brief summary of the patient illness, treatment and outcome. 2. The process of extracting elements of data from a source document or database and entering them into an audomated system
Accession number
A number assigned to each case as it is entered in a cancer registry
Accession registry
A list of cases in a cancer registry in the order in which they were entered
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
The branch of the US Public Health Service that supports general health research and distributes research findings and treatment guidelines with the goal of improving the quality, appropriateness, and effectiveness of healthcare data
American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer
Organization that approves cancer-related programs, including cancer registries and trauma centers
audit trail
chronological set of computerized records that provides evidence of information system activity that is used to determine security violations
Case definition
method of determining criteria for cases that should be included in a registry
Case finding
method of identifying patients who have been seen and/or treated in a healthcare facility for the particular disease of condition of interest to the registry
clinical trial
controlled research study involving human subjects that is designed to evaluate prospectively the safety and effectiveness of new drugs, tests, devices, or interventions
collaborative stage data set
standardized neoplasm staging system developed by the American Joint Commission on cancer
credentialing
process of reviewing and validating the qualifications of physicians for granting medical staff membership to provide patient care services
data confidentiality
extent to which personal health information is kept private
data security
process of keeping data safe from unauthorized alteration or destruction
database
organized collection of data, text, references, or pictures in a standardized format, typically stored in a computer system for multiple applicatons
disease index
list of diseases and conditions of patients sequenced according to the code numbers of the classification system in use
disease registry
centralized collection of data used to improve the quality of care and measure the effectiveness of a particular aspect of healthcare delivery
edit
condition that must be satisfied before a computer system can accept data
encryption
process of transforming text into an unintelligible string of characters that can be transmitted via communications media with a high degree of security and then decrypted when it reaches a secure destination
facility-based registry
registry that includes only cases from a particular type of healthcare facility, such as a hospital or clinic
Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS)
A set of numbers used in a trauma registry to indicate the nature and severity of injuries by body system
Abstracting
1. The process of extracting information from a document to create a brief summary of the patient illness, treatment and outcome. 2. The process of extracting elements of data from a source document or database and entering them into an audomated system
Accession number
A number assigned to each case as it is entered in a cancer registry
Accession registry
A list of cases in a cancer registry in the order in which they were entered
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
The branch of the US Public Health Service that supports general health research and distributes research findings and treatment guidelines with the goal of improving the quality, appropriateness, and effectiveness of healthcare data
American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer
Organization that approves cancer-related programs, including cancer registries and trauma centers
audit trail
chronological set of computerized records that provides evidence of information system activity that is used to determine security violations
Case definition
method of determining criteria for cases that should be included in a registry
Case finding
method of identifying patients who have been seen and/or treated in a healthcare facility for the particular disease of condition of interest to the registry
clinical trial
controlled research study involving human subjects that is designed to evaluate prospectively the safety and effectiveness of new drugs, tests, devices, or interventions
facility specific system
computerized information system developed exclusively to meet the needs of one healthcare organzition
Food and Drug Administration
federal agency responsible for controlling the sale and use of pahrmaceuticals, biological products, medical devices, food, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation, including licensing of medications for human use
Health services research
Research conducted on the subject of healthcare delivery that examines organizational structures and systems as well as the effectivenes and efficiency of healthcare services
Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank
database maintained by the federal government to provide information on fraud-and-abuse findings against US healthcare providers
Histocompatibility
immunologic similarity between an organ donor and a transplant recipient
Incidence
number of new cases of a specific disease
Index
organized (alphabetical) list of specific data that serves to guide, indicate, or otherwise facilitate reference to the data
Injury Severity Score (ISS)
overall severity measurement maintained in the trauma registry and calculated from the abbreviated injury scores for the three most severe injuries for each patient
Interrater reliability
measure of a research instrument's consistency in data collection shen used by different abstractors
Medical Literature, Analysis, adn Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE)
computerized online database in the bibliographic Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System (MEDLARS) of the National Library of Medicine
National Practitioner Data Bank
data bank established by the federal government through the 1986 Health Care Quality Improvement Act that contains info on professional review actions taken against physicians which healthcare organizations are required to check as part of credentialing
National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC)
national advisory group that suports the director of the National Vaccine Program
North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR)
national organization that certifies state, poulation-based cancer registries
Operation index
list of the operations and surgeries performed in a healthcare facility that is sequenced accordign to the code numbers of the classification system in use
Patient-specific/identifiable data
personal information that can be linked to a specific patient, such as age, gender, DOB, address
Physician index
list of patients and their physicians that is usually arranged according to the physician code numbers assigned by the facility
Population-based reigistry
type of registry that includes information from more than one facility in a specific goepolitical area, such as state or region
Primary data source
record developed by healthcare professionals in the process of providing patient care
Protocol
healthcare -- detailed plan of care for a specific medical condition based on investigative studies, medical research -- rule of procedure to be folowed in clinical trial, computer network -- protocol used to address and ensure delivery of data
Public Health
area of healthcare that deals with the health of population in states or countries
secondary data source
data derived from the primary patient record, such as an index or a database
stage of the neoplasm
classification the malignancies accordign to the anatomic extent of the tumor, ex. primary neoplasm, regional lymph nodes, metastes
traumatic injury
wound or injury included in the trauma registry
Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)
program initiated by the National Library of Medicine to build an intelligent, automated system that can understand biomedical concepts, words, and expressions and their interrelationships
User groups
groups composed of users of a particular computer system
Vendor system
computer system developed by a commercial company not affiliated with the healthcare organization
vital statistics
data related to births, deaths, marriages, fetal deaths
National Practitioner Data Bank
data bank established by the federal government through the 1986 Health Care Quality Improvement Act that contains info on profesional review actions taken against physicians which healthcare organizations are required to check as part of credentialing
National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC)
national advisory group that suports the director of the National Vaccine Program
North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR)
national organization that certifies state, poulation-based cancer registries
Operation index
list of the operations and surgeries performed in a healthcare facility that is sequenced according to the code numbers of the classification system in use
Patient-specific/identifiable data
personal information that can be linked to a specific patient, such as age, gender, DOB, address
Physician index
list of patients and their physicians that is usually arranged according to the physician code numbers assignsed by the facility
Population-based registry
type of registry that includes information from more than one facility in a specific geopolitical area, such as state or region
Primary data source
record developed by healthcare professionals in the process of providing patient care
Protocol
healthcare -- detailed plan of care for a specific medical condition based on investigative studies, medical research -- rule of procedure to be folowed in clinical trial, computer network -- protocol used to address and ensure delivery of data
Public Health
area of healthcare that deals with the health of population in states or countries