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ArticleMiddle East African journal of ophthalmology

Development of a web-based glaucoma registry at King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Saudi Arabia: a cost-effective methodology.

Babar Zaman, Rajiv Khandekar, Sami Al Shahwan, Jonathan Song, Ibrahim Al Jadaan, Leyla Al Jiasim, Ohood Owaydha, Nasira Asghar, Amar Hijazi, Deepak P Edward

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Article in Middle East African journal of ophthalmology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. International Comparison of Thalassemia Registries: Challenges and Opportunities.Acta informatica medica : AIM : journal of the Society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia & Herzegovina : casopis Drustva za medicinsku informatiku BiH · 2019
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  2. Eradicating primary congenital glaucoma from Saudi Arabia: The case for a national screening program.Saudi journal of ophthalmology : official journal of the Saudi Ophthalmological Society
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Babar ZamanDepartment of Research, King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Rajiv KhandekarDepartment of Research, King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Sami Al ShahwanDepartment of Research, King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Jonathan SongDepartment of Research, King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ; Department of Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
Ibrahim Al JadaanDepartment of Research, King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Leyla Al JiasimDepartment of Research, King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Ohood OwaydhaDepartment of Research, King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Nasira AsgharDepartment of Research, King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Amar HijaziDepartment of Information Technology, King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Deepak P EdwardDepartment of Research, King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ; Department of Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this brief communication, we present the steps used to establish a web-based congenital glaucoma registry at our institution. The contents of a case report form (CRF) were developed by a group of glaucoma subspecialists. Information Technology (IT) specialists used Lime Survey softwareTM to create an electronic CRF. A MY Structured Query Language (MySQL) server was used as a database with a virtual machine operating system. Two ophthalmologists and 2 IT specialists worked for 7 hours, and a biostatistician and a data registrar worked for 24 hours each to establish the electronic CRF. Using the CRF which was transferred to the Lime survey tool, and the MYSQL server application, data could be directly stored in spreadsheet programs that included Microsoft Excel, SPSS, and R-Language and queried in real-time. In a pilot test, clinical data from 80 patients with congenital glaucoma were entered into the registry and successful descriptive analysis and data entry validation was performed. A web-based disease registry was established in a short period of time in a cost-efficient manner using available resources and a team-based approach.

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Costs and Cost AnalysisGlaucomaHumansInternetProspective StudiesRegistriesSaudi ArabiaSoftwareSurveys and QuestionnairesCongenital GlaucomaHealth RegisterWeb-Based Registry

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PMID24791112
PMCPMC4005185

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