For Crohn's disease to be registered in the Registry of Catastrophic Illness database, the attending physician must submit information about the clinical diagnosis, laboratory results, endoscopic findings, pathological reports as well as the possible image studies to register the patient's diagnosis of Crohn's disease, as well as for excluding intestinal tuberculosis.
Indeed, when the police admit that someone could end up on a secret police database merely for attending a demonstration, it is exactly the time to worry.
Between 2002 and 2010, 57 patients with documented radial head fractures seen at a level 1 trauma center were identified from the database of two attending orthopedic surgeons.
The participants were selected out of a database of patients attending the Primary Care asthma/COPD service of "Certe Laboratory" (The Netherlands) [ 18].
A random sample intended to achieve 700 patients was drawn from the database of patients attending a Dublin hospital diabetes clinic (n = 4,577).
We conducted a cross sectional survey of patients sampled from a national database of patients attending general practice for methadone treatment.
A computer-generated list of potential control individuals was obtained from a historical database of patients attending the same ICU (977 patients from 1999 to 2001).
The aim of the study was thus to investigate ambulance runs initially assigned 'life-saving missions' with emphasis on long-term outcome in patients treated by the Mobile Emergency Care Unit (MECU) in Odense, Denmark All MECU runs are registered in a database by the attending physician, stating, among other parameters, the treatment given, outcome of the treatment and the patient's diagnosis.
In 2011, a workshop on medication errors in safety databases was attended by ten national pharmacovigilance centres (Morocco, Kenya, Iran, New Zealand, Thailand, Spain, Switzerland, Nigeria, Brazil and Tunisia) and by patient safety organisations from the UK and Canada.
PSC patients were selected from a larger database of 346 patients attending the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford from between 2001 and 2012.
