The chronic disease data bank-the ARAMIS experience

Author

McShane, Dennis J. ; Fries, James F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Med., Stanford Univ. Sch. of Med., CA, USA

Volume

76

Issue

6

fYear

1988

fDate

6/1/1988 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

672

Lastpage

679

Abstract

The authors provide an overview of the American Rheumatism Association Medical Information System (ARAMIS), a national database and database management system containing parallel longitudinal clinical data sets from 17 rheumatic disease centers. 22 000 patients and 183000 observation time points are represented. The database contains measures of five dimensions-death, disability, discomfort, iatrogenic, and economic-and subdivisions of each dimension that provide a measure of the impact of the disease. The database management system is the MEDLOG time oriented database statistical software system. It runs on MOS-DOS-compatible microcomputers MEDLOG´s file limits and abilities are described, and future directions for ARAMIS and MEDLOG are briefly covered

Keywords

database management systems; medical computing; ARAMIS experience; American Rheumatism Association Medical Information System; MEDLOG time oriented database statistical software system; MOS-DOS-compatible microcomputers; chronic disease data bank; database management system; death; disability; discomfort; economic; iatrogenic; observation time points; parallel longitudinal clinical data sets; rheumatic disease; Aggregates; Cardiac disease; Cardiovascular diseases; Databases; Hardware; Instruments; Medical information systems; Microcomputers; Software systems; Surveillance;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Proceedings of the IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9219

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/5.4456

Filename

4456