abstract aim: to analysis the epidemiological and clinopathological aspects of gastric cancer. methods: we retrospectively studied the characteristics of 752 gastric carcinoma patients registered in cancer registry center of taleghani hospital from 2001 to 2006. all the patients confirmed gastric cancer histopathologically. univariate methods (mann-whitney u-test, and chi-square) were used for ...

Background: A clinical registry encompasses a selective set of rigorously collected and stored clinical data focused on a specific condition. Hyponatremia has multiple, complex underlying causes and is one of the most frequent laboratory abnormalities. No systematic registries of hyponatremic patients have been reported in the medical literature. The purpose of this project was to create a regi...

BACKGROUND A clinical registry encompasses a selective set of rigorously collected and stored clinical data focused on a specific condition. Hyponatremia has multiple, complex underlying causes and is one of the most frequent laboratory abnormalities. No systematic registries of hyponatremic patients have been reported in the medical literature. The purpose of this project was to create a regis...

Systems management in any organization depends exclusively on the efforts of a system administrator. Every change in the IT infrastructure landscape requires changes in the systems configuration settings. We propose the use of enterprise registries for addressing the automation of systems configuration. Registries provide global view on the whole IT infrastructure of an enterprise, store a comp...

BACKGROUND Various groups have called for a national system to monitor the quality of cancer care. The validity of cancer registry data for quality of cancer care has not been well studied. We investigated the validity of such information in the California Cancer Registry. METHODS We compared registry data associated with care with data abstracted from the medical records of patients diagnose...

Objectives to evaluate registry data routinely collected by the Chronic Disease Electronic Management System (CDEMS) in the monitoring of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in the Eastern half of the island and use the data to describe the spatial epidemiological patterns of T2DM. Design and Method The starting point was access and retrival of all exsisting data on the diabetes registry. This da...

Due to the Federal Cancer Registration Act passed in 1994, all federal states of Germany are obligated to install population-based cancer registries before 1999. In the course of the establishment of a cancer registry in Lower-Saxony, a computer-based toolbox called CARTools, which is designed to support work of this kind of institutions, is currently being developed at OFFIS, an institute for ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system with unknown cause and various benefits from disease modifying therapies. Systematic recording of data into national MS registries is therefore needed to optimize treatment and define the pathogenesis of the disease. The Norwegian MS Registry and Biobank was established for systematic collection of clinical ...