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Nwomeh, Benedict C.; Lowell, Wendi; Kable, Renae; Haley, Kathy; Ameh, Emmanuel A.

doi:10.1186/1749-7922-1-32

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“…Trauma registries have a purpose in collating essential public health information which can be analysed and the results used in planning and policy-making, ultimately reducing morbidity (3,25,31). This would be helpful both for developing countries and also on an international scale with an international trauma databank ultimately allowing countries to have global benchmark data, with the aim of improving our trauma care systems and prevention policies (32).…”

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Patterns of Ocular Trauma Presenting to the University Hospital of the West Indies in Jamaica

Nelson-Imoru¹,

Mowatt²,

Walters³

2014

WIMJ Open

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Patterns of Ocular Trauma Presenting to the University Hospital of the West Indies in Jamaica

Nelson-Imoru¹,

Mowatt²,

Walters³

2014

WIMJ Open

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“…In the case of injury surveillance in LMIC, the two chronic roadblocks to the implementation of sustainable data registries are a lack of finances and trained personnel [48]. This study focused on addressing this problem by designing simple, easy-to-use protocols for collecting, managing, and analyzing injury data.…”

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Injury surveillance in low-resource settings using Geospatial and Social Web technologies

Cinnamon

Schuurman

2010

International Journal of Health Geographics

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BackgroundExtensive public health gains have benefited high-income countries in recent decades, however, citizens of low and middle-income countries (LMIC) have largely not enjoyed the same advancements. This is in part due to the fact that public health data - the foundation for public health advances - are rarely collected in many LMIC. Injury data are particularly scarce in many low-resource settings, despite the huge associated burden of morbidity and mortality. Advances in freely-accessible and easy-to-use information and communication (ICT) technology may provide the impetus for increased public health data collection in settings with limited financial and personnel resources.Methods and ResultsA pilot study was conducted at a hospital in Cape Town, South Africa to assess the utility and feasibility of using free (non-licensed), and easy-to-use Social Web and GeoWeb tools for injury surveillance in low-resource settings. Data entry, geocoding, data exploration, and data visualization were successfully conducted using these technologies, including Google Spreadsheet, Mapalist, BatchGeocode, and Google Earth.ConclusionThis study examined the potential for Social Web and GeoWeb technologies to contribute to public health data collection and analysis in low-resource settings through an injury surveillance pilot study conducted in Cape Town, South Africa. The success of this study illustrates the great potential for these technologies to be leveraged for public health surveillance in resource-constrained environments, given their ease-of-use and low-cost, and the sharing and collaboration capabilities they afford. The possibilities and potential limitations of these technologies are discussed in relation to the study, and to the field of public health in general.

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“…McCombs et al (24) studied and analyzed data from a department of veterans affairs clinical registry to evaluate the risk of long-term morbidity in patients with chronic hepatitis C. Sites et al (25) illustrated the use of international clinical registry in quality improvement. Nwomeh et al (26) studied trauma registry that as one of components in trauma care systems. Megan Quinn (27) has studied characteristics of cancer in adolescents using Tennessee cancer registry from 2004–2008.…”

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Need of informatics in designing interoperable clinical registries

Rastegar-Mojarad

Sohn

Wang

et al. 2017

International Journal of Medical Informatics

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Clinical registries are designed to collect information relating to a particular condition for research or quality improvement. Intuitively, informatics in the area of data management and extraction plays a central role in clinical registries. Due to various reasons such as lack of informatics awareness or expertise, there may be little informatics involvement in designing clinical registries. In this paper, we studied a clinical registry from two critical perspectives, data quality and interoperability, where informatics can play a role. We evaluated these two aspects of an existing registry, Gynecology Surgery Registry, by mapping data elements and value sets, used in the registry, to a standardized terminology, SNOMED-CT. The results showed that majority of the values are ad-hoc and only 6 of 91 procedures in the registry could be mapped to the SNOMED-CT. To tackle this issue, we assessed the feasibility of automated data abstraction process, by training machine learning classifiers, based on existing manually extracted data. These classifiers achieved a reasonable average F-measure of 0.94. We concluded that more informatics engagement is needed to improve the interoperability, reusability, and quality of the registry.

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Abstract: Improvement in trauma care depends on the establishment of functioning trauma care systems, of which a trauma registry is a crucial component. Hospitals and governments in developing countries should be encouraged to establish trauma registries using proven cost-effective strategies.

Cited by 152 publications

References 27 publications

Patterns of Ocular Trauma Presenting to the University Hospital of the West Indies in Jamaica

Patterns of Ocular Trauma Presenting to the University Hospital of the West Indies in Jamaica

Injury surveillance in low-resource settings using Geospatial and Social Web technologies

Need of informatics in designing interoperable clinical registries

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