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Patient-related data management (PDM) has become an increasingly important and time-consuming task in intensive care medicine. Currently, all data are usually collected in a poorly structured patient chart consisting of forms and pictures, with about 400 manual entries a day. To handle this amount of data, we have designed a three-level patient system: level 1, summarizing the whole patient; level 2, summarizing one organ system or one isolated problem; and level 3, variables describing morphology and function of organ systems. PDM must be adapted to different clinical situations. We observed three different scenarios: (1) Exploratory PDM, where the clinician learns about the patient and builds up an individual patient model in his or her mind. (2) Operational PDM, where in routine care clinicians are part of a feedback control system, in which they use the patient-related model. (3) Summary PDM, where a clinician summarizes all the information gathered during a period when he or she was responsible for the patient. Computing tools based on clinical thinking and adapted to different situations can ensure accurate, clear, and concise patient care communication among the members of the intensive care staff.
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An address delivered on the occasion of the First Annual Meeting of the European Society for Computing in Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Goldegg, Austria, Oct 26, 1990.
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Friesdorf, W., Schwilk, B. Patient-related data management. J Clin Monitor Comput 8, 308–314 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01617913
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