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Evaluation of information system for organ transplantation in hospitals affiliated to medical universities in Tehran
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Hamid Moghaddasi   , Azamossadat Hosseini * , Farkhondeh Asadi , Somayeh Sadat Seyyedi |
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| Background: The existence of effective Organ Transplant Information System (OTIS) is essential for improving quality of patient care through measuring with graft survival rate, graft rejection incidence rate and patient survival rate. Therefore this study was conducted to check the current status of Organ Transplant Information System's in educational hospitals affiliated to medical university in Tehran. Materials and methods: This study is cross-sectional descriptive study. The research population included Organ Transplant Information Systems of Medical Sciences Universities of Tehran that have organ transplant ward. The volume of the sample conformed to the volume of the research population. Data were gathered through observing and questioning by checklist and questionnaire tools. Validity and reliability of check list and questionnaire was assessed by content validity and test-retest (r=0.87) respectively. The analysis of data was conducted based on descriptive statistics. Results: Most (% 66/7) Information Systems in organ transplantation wards under study were semi-computerized. In these systems there were 62.3 percent pre-transplant data, 53.7 percent organ transplant data and 27.3 percent post-transplant data. About performed data processing in OTIS should be said time to transplant with most rate i.e. 41.7 percent is estimated in Organ Transplant Information Systems under study. In all of OTISs data management was done by data gathering forms but in 16.7 percent of them follow up forms were used. In 83.3 percent of Information Systems, nurses and in 66.7 percent of them specialists were the user of the system. International standards of OTIS were not observed in any of organ transplant wards under study. Conclusion: The results of OTIS investigation in under study hospitals shows that follow up data that are effective in transplant outcome evaluation like transplant failure, mortality after transplant, patient and organ survival rates, and in determining the medications and treatments needed and determining patient´s status after transplant, in many of OTISs were not collected and processed. Data exchange and terminology standards that facilitate information exchange were not used in organ transplant wards because Organ Transplant Information Systems did not connect with each other and with Hospital Information System. Because advanced facilities in OTIS can produce organ transplant information faster and provide necessary information to doctors and patients for selecting appropriate donor and to policy makers and managers for decision making in organ allocation, so planning and implementation of computerized Organ Transplant Information System in organ transplantation center and other centers related to organ transplantation and their multilateral relationship with each other is essential. |
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| Keywords: Information system, Organ transplantation, Organ Transplant Information System |
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Type of Study: Original |
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Medicine
Received: 2017 | Accepted: 2017 | Published: 2017
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