Establishment of database platform in traumatic brain injury field and its preliminary application

Abstract

Objective To establish a database of China which developed independently for the collection of the traumatic brain injury,for investigation of its epidemiological characteristics and the prevention of traumatic brain injury.Methods Standardized items of traumatic brain injury patients that needed to type-in were formulated uniformly,then completed the preliminary establishment of the database by professionals majoring in computer,finally improved the database through entering medical records information of the patients.Results The preliminary establishment of the database was finished in October 2011,in which the information of 1 175 cases of traumatic brain injury patients was collected by June 2012.The database could meet essential research needs,such as input and output data for basic analysis and conducting retrospective research on the medical records.Conclusions The successful establishment of the traumatic brain injury database will advance the development of treatment for traumatic brain injury effectively,which is of great importance to the epidemiological research in Beijing as well as the whole nation. Key words: Traumatic brain injury; Database ; Epidemiology ; Diagnosis