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DATA
MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM
ASSESMENT:
A
GLOBAL
SURGICAL
AID
ORGANIZATION
CASE
STUDY
by
Timothy
Justin
Gillenwater,
Jr.
A
Thesis
Presented
to
the
FACULTY
OF
THE
USC
GRADUATE
SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY
OF
SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA
In
Partial
Fulfillment
of
the
Requirements
for
the
Degree
MASTER
OF
SCIENCE
(CLINICAL
AND
BIOMEDICAL
INVESTIGATIONS)
May
2012
Copyright
2012
Timothy
Justin
Gillenwater,
Jr.
Object Description
| Title | Data management system assessment: a global surgical aid organization case study |
| Author | Gillenwater, T. Justin, Jr. |
| Author email | justin.gillenwater@med.usc.edu;gillenwt@gmail.com |
| Degree | Master of Science |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Clinical and Biomedical Investigations |
| School | Keck School of Medicine |
| Date defended/completed | 2012-04-02 |
| Date submitted | 2012-05-04 |
| Date approved | 2012-05-04 |
| Restricted until | 2012-05-04 |
| Date published | 2012-05-04 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Samet, Jonathan |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Magee, William, III Figueiredo, Jane Sherman, Randy |
| Abstract | While international surgical humanitarian organizations can reduce the global burden of surgical disease and improve healthcare infrastructure in developing countries, the overall impact on the lives of those treated is difficult to quantify. Given the challenging environments in which they operate, these aid groups face substantial problems associated with providing services, collecting and maintaining patient health information as well as tracking indicators of quality and longer-term outcomes. Surgical charities suffer from lacking transparency and accountability: a direct result of not recording and openly reporting on their practices and results. ❧ Although their use and potential strengths are well established, electronic health records have not been applied in the field during surgical missions. Recent innovations in mobile health software solutions, real‐time connectivity, and portability of hardware have opened the door to implementing electronic health records in challenging environments. Such technological advances can be leveraged to solve the unmet data management needs of humanitarian organizations, thus improving on‐site patient tracking and operational efficiency as well as patient outcome and quality control analysis. Electronic data collection and distribution from these resource‐limited settings may play a significant factor in advancing the establishment of international surgical practice guidelines. ❧ Operation Smile is a global surgical charity dedicated to the treatment of congenital facial deformities. To audit outcomes and improve quality of care, the organization translates information from existing pen-and-paper medical records to a basic system of electronic databases. Yet, significant challenges to research and reporting persist due to a lack of state-of-the‐art data management strategies. ❧ This thesis will elucidate the design and development of an electronic data management application that collects, processes, and distributes information. The design of the system is based on first‐hand experience with Operation Smile missions and an attempt to use mission data for outcomes assessment. The proposed solution will be an invaluable resource for real-time mission-based patient management as well as a constantly updated investigational database for the study of disease etiology and surgical outcomes in cleft care in the developing world. |
| Keyword | global health; information technology; surgery; data management; humanitarian aid; mHealth |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Gillenwater, T. Justin, Jr. |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume4/etd-Gillenwate-775.pdf |
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| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ASSESMENT: A GLOBAL SURGICAL AID ORGANIZATION CASE STUDY by Timothy Justin Gillenwater, Jr. A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF SCIENCE (CLINICAL AND BIOMEDICAL INVESTIGATIONS) May 2012 Copyright 2012 Timothy Justin Gillenwater, Jr. |
