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| Year : 2020 | Volume
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Improving hypertension surveillance from a data management prospective: Data requirements for implementation of population-based registry
Mostafa Shanbehzadeh1, Hadi Kazemi-Arpanahi2, Arezo Arzani-Birgani2, Azimeh Karimyan3, Fatemeh Mobasheri2
1 Department of Health Information Technology, School of Paramedical, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran
2 Department of Health Information Technology, Abadan Faculty of Medical Sciences, Abadan, Iran
3 Department of Public Health, Abadan Faculty of Medical Sciences, Abadan, Iran
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Hadi Kazemi-Arpanahi
Department of Health Information Technology, Abadan Faculty of Medical Sciences, Abadan
Iran
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_37_20
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BACKGROUND: Hypertension (HTN) has become a major public health problem which can cause serious complications when it is not well-controlled. Prevention and effective care of HTN require a population-based registry. Thus, establishing this registry can be used to collect comprehensive, timely, and reliable data on epidemiology cases. The aim is to create a registry for the collection of highly required prospective data that will present an in-depth analysis of the characteristics of all individuals with HTN and track them over a particular chronological interval.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study was divided into three phases: At first, a comprehensive literature review was conducted to determine the proposed data classes and data fields. Then, the final minimum data set was designed by a two-round Delphi consensus approach of 20 experts of cardiologists, nephrologists, nutritionist, and health information management. Finally, a web-based registry system was developed by a Structured Query Language environment.
RESULTS: A total of two clinical and nonclinical data categories with nine data classes and 68 data fields were selected for their inclusion in the registry following the consensus phase. A web-based registry was designed with a modular and layered architecture.
CONCLUSIONS: This study provides an appropriate information infrastructure for active tracing and monitoring of individuals with HTN. It has provided a practical information system allowing quality improvement, aggregate reporting for planning, and research purposes.
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