[A computerized system for the management of clinical data in a cardiology service]

The authors describe a computerized system for medical records built in order to obtain rapid information about the data of the overall patients and to quickly manage the clinical research of the Institution. The hardware, an Olivetti M 19 personal computer with a 10 Mbyte hard disk, can manage the clinical data on 3000 patients or more; the software, DBase III Plus, by Ashton-Tate, has a programming language easy to use, even by non-experts. The system allows immediate statistical analysis of all patients and of all 350 parameters included in the database.