Applied Medical Informatics 2003;13(3-4): 11-16.
Creating Etiology/Prognostic Critical Appraised Topics CATRom Original Software for Romanian Physicians
Sorana D. Bolboacă1, Lorentz Jäntschi2, Andrei Achimaş Cadariu1
1Dept. of Medical Informatics and Biostatistics, University of Medicine and Pharmacy „Iuliu Haţieganu” Cluj-Napoca & 2Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, România
Abstract
Etiology and prognosis are important factors in diagnostic and treatment decisions-making being activities that must to be faced by physicians every day. Evaluation of the specificity of an association between risk or prognostic factors and disease is usual described in a case-control or a cohort study and are made on categorical variables. There are publications of assessment the validity, relevance and results of etiology/prognosis but Romanian physicians could not have access to this information’s because of poverty of English language knowledge. Because assessing an etiology/prognosis paper is time consuming it will be a waste of time not to summarize the information in order to be available and to be read by other physicians. Based on a comprehensive review of medical literature we developed an etiology/prognosis CATRom interface, software that to assist Romanian physicians in creating, storing, retrieving, and filtering etiology/prognosis critical appraised topics.
Keywords: Evidence-based medicine; Critical appraise topics; Risk factors assessment; Case-control study; Cohort studies.