Patient Identification and Tumor Identification Management: Quality Program in a Cancer Multicentric Clinical Data Warehouse
Karine Pallier,
Olivier Prot,
Simone Naldi
et al.
Abstract:Background: The Regional Basis of Solid Tumor (RBST), a clinical data warehouse, centralizes information related to cancer patient care in 5 health establishments in 2 French departments. Purpose: To develop algorithms matching heterogeneous data to “real” patients and “real” tumors with respect to patient identification (PI) and tumor identification (TI). Methods: A graph database programed in java Neo4j was used to build the RBST with data from ~20 000 patients. The PI algorithm using the Levenshtein distanc… Show more
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