Efficiency and safety of chemotherapy plans for children: CATIPO—a nationwide approach

On Educating about Medical Data Management

“…In our experience, it proved helpful that teaching this topic is accompaniedb yr esearch in the fieldofmedical data management. Examplesofresearch on thistopic by the authors areg iven in [25][26][27]a nd,i na somewhat broaderrange,but still closeand related, in [33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41]. Other examples of relatedr esearch,p resented in recentp ublicationsinthis journal, arein [42,43] discussing medical data management andelectronic patient records relatedtopatient data presentation,in [44][45][46], to health information systems, in [47] and [ 48] to patientgroup analysis, in [49] to coding, in [50][51][52] to ICT tools, in [53][54][55]tocooperative care andt ransinstitutionalh ealth information systems, in [56] and [ 57] to knowledgebased decision support, in [58] to software engineering, in [59] to user interfacing, in [60] to newdatatypes, in [61] to authentification as well as in [62] and [63] to newinformation andc ommunication technologies.…”

A Meta-Model of Chemotherapy Planning in the Multi-Hospital/Multi-Trial-Center-Environment of Pediatric Oncology

“…Additionally, we carried out a survey with standardized questions [19] twice in order to get to know the general opinion and an overview over the problems which accompanied the introduction. In each of the surveys, over 20 medical centers participated.…”

“…In cooperation with the GPOH, the Department of Medical Informatics of the University of Heidelberg realized chemoMM. Based on chemoMM, we have developed the application systems CATIPO [19] and DOSPO [25] as final products of two evolutionary prototyping phases to support the chemotherapy treatment in pediatric oncology.…”

“…However, CATIPO did not offer computer-based documentation of the actually administered patientspecific therapy and was not able to provide an overview of the therapy. According to one of our surveys [19], the problems which hospitals had to face most often were caused by restrictions of the protocol knowledge definition module. CATIPO was developed to run in a DOS-environment on a single workstation.…”

Typical Medication Errors in Oncology: Analysis and Prevention Strategies

“…Obstacles are lack of standards for data transfer as well as insufficient computer equipment of the clinics. A successful example for the automation of planning and calculation of a complex chemotherapy is the programme CATIPO established in some paediatric centres in Germany [34]. In the meantime, some programmes (ZENZY, CYPRO) originally developed as production support in hospital pharmacies also enable a direct link to the ward.…”