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An information system to integrate outpatient cancer care data in the Unified National Health System

This study focuses on the development of a system to integrate monthly outpatient cancer care data in the Unified National Health System (SUS). The system was modeled to retrace the treatment evolution in each cancer case and services output, with the following advantage: the system focuses on the cancer case, does not require knowledge by the user in order to handle the database, and allows updating the base as new data emerge. The results of direct queries in the system were identical to those obtained from direct inspection of the original database and those from another integration approach. The use of a tool with these characteristics by public administrators can help improve the quality of outpatient cancer care provided by the National Health System.

Ambulatory Care Information Systems; Ambulatory Care; Neoplasms


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