Open AccessA country wide adaptation of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons lung cancer core database: the Hungarian model
Author(s) -
Zalán Szántó,
József Furák,
PierreEmmanuel Falcoz,
Alessandro Brunelli,
G. A. Lang
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of thoracic disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.682
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 2077-6624
pISSN - 2072-1439
DOI - 10.21037/jtd.2018.04.100
Subject(s) - database , benchmarking , medicine , national database , specialty , cardiothoracic surgery , computer science , surgery , family medicine , marketing , business
Registering details of thoracic surgical activity has a long tradition in Hungary. Implemented first as a procedure based register, characteristics of the treatment, complications and outcomes has been noted for the last three decades. Although the limitations of the used database hindered the scientific analysis in the dataset and restricted the possibility of benchmarking. The European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS) database is offering a specialty-specific, procedure-specific, web-based electronic database for data contribution enabling international comparisons. Our aim was to accommodate and implement the ESTS database as the new Hungarian national thoracic surgical registry.