A strategy to implement a dynamic dental epidemiological relational database

Author

Taylor, D. ; Naguib, R.N.G. ; Amin, S. ; James, A. ; Boulton, S.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Math. & Inf. Sci., Coventry Univ., UK

Volume

4

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

3680

Abstract

Dental surveys to collect data on the developing dentition of school aged children are routinely performed by Health Authorities in the UK. The information collected varies greatly from survey to survey, so that each survey file has a unique structure and consists of unique data elements. The data itself is currently stored in such a way that analysis of data between different survey sets is not possible. This paper investigates a method of modelling a dynamic data store capable of accepting differing historical survey data sets, and studies the functionality required to support the dynamic data store design.

Keywords

dentistry; medical information systems; modelling; paediatrics; relational databases; UK Health Authorities; developing dentition; dynamic data store design; dynamic dental epidemiological relational database; functionality; historical survey data sets; modelling method; school aged children; survey file; Aging; Data analysis; Data structures; Dentistry; Educational institutions; Pain; Pediatrics; Performance analysis; Public healthcare; Relational databases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2001. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7211-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1019634

Filename

1019634