Summary: Background: For an adequate documentation in pediatric surgery the international catalogues for diagnoses und procedures in medicine (ICD, ICPM) are often insufficient. In order to achieve a more detailed documentation and guarantee simple and safe usage a special catalogue was created and integrated into an intranet solution. Methods: The hardware was supplied by the administrator of the clinic, all software necessary could be downloaded as freeware from the internet. The installation of client software at the workstations as so‐called database clients was automatically achieved with the uploading of an internet browser. For integration of the database carrying the diagnoses and procedures in pediatric surgery, the author developed a middleware module which connected intranet and database. Results: The prototype of the database was installed successfully. With the help of an extensive thesaurus, diagnoses and procedures for pediatric surgery could be retrieved in a comfortable way by any internet experienced user. Therefore, the time for getting familiar with this tool was short. Conclusions: Special catalogues of diagnoses and procedures in pediatric surgery could meet the requirements of the new health care guidelines in Germany. The Internet technology applied to a local network as an intranet allowed a simple integration of these catalogues into the process of documentation. People experienced little difficulties to start up working with the system because the interface was familiar. Since the software was downloaded as freeware, overall expenses were low. A later integration of this solution in a documentation system could be possible.
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