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Essay: Clinical Data Repositories

This document contains the answers to two questions about clinical data repositories (CDRs) from a student assignment. The first question asks about common information available in CDRs. The student lists patient demographics, medication lists, and laboratory results as three common types and provides an example for each. The second question asks about the importance of graphical representation in CDRs. The student responds that graphical displays simplify complex data and allow physicians to easily review results, helping decision making. Graphical features also help patients understand their care and enable scenario analysis through filtering. This empowers medical staff by providing straightforward data to efficiently perform their tasks.

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Essay: Clinical Data Repositories

This document contains the answers to two questions about clinical data repositories (CDRs) from a student assignment. The first question asks about common information available in CDRs. The student lists patient demographics, medication lists, and laboratory results as three common types and provides an example for each. The second question asks about the importance of graphical representation in CDRs. The student responds that graphical displays simplify complex data and allow physicians to easily review results, helping decision making. Graphical features also help patients understand their care and enable scenario analysis through filtering. This empowers medical staff by providing straightforward data to efficiently perform their tasks.

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CHAPTER XIII

CLINICAL DATA REPOSITORIES

Essay

Name of Student Condrillon, Choren G.

Year and Section BSMT-1B

Name of Instructor Sir Mark Abegonia

Date Submitted November 29, 2020 Rating

Answer the following questions in 150 words or more.

1. Can you list three most common available information in a CDR and give some
example for each?
Answer:
Patient demographics, medication lists, and laboratory results are among the
commonly available information in a CDR. The importance of these three
common available information in a CDR improves the patient experience and
more oriented individual.

A. Patient demographics are essential, particularly in CDR, as the information is


collected from patients allows for the identification of a patient and his
categorization to provide better care and the most effective treatments. The
patient demographics help us in decision making since the more you know about
an individual’s history, the better you can tailor your care to their needs. For
example, a patient’s location might affect their ability to receive immediate care,
while their ethnicity and medical history might increase their susceptibility to
disease. It’s also important for healthcare professionals to be culturally competent
to put patients at ease, address their unique concerns, and make them feel
respected.
B. Medication list contains the medications that are given to a patient currently
taking. An example is your doctor provided you his prescribed medication. This
medication list includes the name of the medication, the dose, and the number of
times a day you have to take it. It is important to have a medication list as it let
your medical providers know about your health and to assist you in a faster
manner.
C. Laboratory results are an essential parameter in diagnosis, monitoring, and
screening. Primarily, laboratory results contain the data from the findings of the
laboratory test. An example of a laboratory result is the findings from the CBC test.
It shows there the results of the types and numbers of cells in the blood, including
red and white blood cells and platelets.
2. How would you explain the importance of the graphical representation feature of
a CDR in helping the physician carry out their task more effectively?
Answer:
A graphical presentation is a meaningful way of representing data in pictorial or
graphical format considering it is uncomplicated to understand. It helps in
simplifying a wide array of information that allows decision-makers to derive
analytical results from information presented visually. Besides, it helps the
patients to understand what is expected in their care because of better means of
a graphical presentation of data and also for the physicians, so they can easily
review the results for a more reliable decision. The graphical representation of a
CDR features most clinical data repositories that enable scenario analysis, which
helps users used different kinds of filters to change the level of information that
may be seen. These filters include age and gender to assess outcomes of certain
interventions based on isolating certain factors. This is a good opportunity for
empowering the frontline staff by giving them straightforward data, which will
efficiently and effectively facilitate the performance of their tasks.

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