Interfacing anesthesiology operating room data with statistics software packages

Author

Peterson, Margaret G E ; Williams-Russo, Pamela G. ; Bernardin, Alex ; Sharrock, N.E.

Author_Institution

e-mail: PETERSM@ROCKVAX.ROCKERFELLER.EDU

fYear

1997

fDate

11-13 Jun 1997

Firstpage

42

Lastpage

47

Abstract

During an operation, data is collected on operative events including start and stop times and on continuous data distributions such as heart rate, and blood pressure. This means that records from different operations are of different lengths since the amount of data collected depends on the length of the operation. Padding all records to the same length is a waste of disk space and processing time. In general statistical software packages require constant length records and much of the data is redundant and will not be used in the analysis. This paper discusses a method using a statistics package to format the operation records into one file

Keywords

medical diagnostic computing; medical information systems; software packages; statistical analysis; anesthesiology operating room data interfacing; blood pressure; heart rate; statistical software packages; statistics software packages; Biomedical monitoring; Blood pressure; Computerized monitoring; Heart rate; Hospitals; Packaging; Software packages; Statistics; Surgery; Telephony;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Based Medical Systems., 1997. Proceedings., Tenth IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Maribor

ISSN

1063-7125

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7928-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CBMS.1997.596406

Filename

596406