Registeries
A registry that tracks new cases of cancer
What is the Cancer Registry?
An index that categorizes patients by primary physician
What is a Physician Index?
The data should be error free
What is Accuracy?
This is the number of inpatients at a specific facility at any given time
What is a Census?
A registry that maintains case databases for patients who are in need of an organ transplant
What is the Transplant Registry?
An index that retrieves patient information by diagnosis
What is the Disease Index?
The data should be reliable and the same across multiple applications
What is Consistency?
It compiles data to assist with the study of a certain data element
What is a Index?
A registry that tracks trauma patients from the initial injury treatment to death
What is the Trauma Registry?
An index that retrieves patient information by surgical procedure
What is the Operative Index?
The data should be useful for the purpose it is collected
What is Relevancy?
It is the data that is taken from health records that is put into either a registry or database. Does not identify a patient
What is Secondary Data Source?
A registry that collects information from newborns who have birth defects
What is the Birth Defects Registry?
An index that gives a unique patient identifier which is assigned to each patient that is used to store demographic information and patient records for that particular facility
What is the Master Patient Index?
The data should be easy to access and legal with protections
What is Accessibility?
It is the data directly from the health record of the patient
What is Primary Data Source?
A registry that tracks implant cases, such as complications, deaths, defects and longevity of the implant
What is the Implant Registry?
An index that allows access to patient populations that are stored and maintained in separate systems or databases
What is the Enterprise Master Index (EMPI)?
The data quality should be current or useful for the time frame that it was collected for
What is Timeliness?
The rate in which a group of people in a population have a particular disease at a certain period of time
What is the Prevalence Rate?