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Collecting clinical data for audits is time-consuming. This technique makes hospital data systems accessible to investigators, saving significant time and effort.

Area of Science:

Health Informatics
Clinical Data Management
Hospital Information Systems

Background:

Manual data collection for clinical audits and activity analysis is a significant burden on healthcare professionals.
Existing hospital data systems (e.g., Patient Administration Systems, Theatre Management Systems) often contain valuable information that is not readily accessible for research.
Inefficient data retrieval hinders timely clinical audits and research initiatives.

Purpose of the Study:

To present a novel technique for accessing and utilizing data from hospital information systems for clinical research.
To demonstrate how data from Patient Administration Systems (PAS) and theatre management systems can be made available to clinical investigators.
To highlight the potential for substantial time and effort savings in data collection processes.

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Main Methods:

Developing a method to extract and integrate data from disparate hospital data systems.
Establishing protocols for making this integrated data accessible to authorized clinical investigators.
Validating the technique's efficiency and usability in a real-world clinical setting.

Main Results:

The described technique successfully enables clinical investigators to access data from hospital systems.
Significant reductions in the time and effort required for data collection have been observed.
The method facilitates more efficient clinical audits and activity analysis.

Conclusions:

The proposed technique offers a viable solution to the challenge of time-consuming data collection in healthcare.
Making hospital data systems accessible to investigators can lead to enormous savings in resources.
This approach has the potential to improve the efficiency of clinical research and audit processes.