@article{2024ae6697e946ab956c4ff72c6e1fa7,
title = "A time-tested information system in neurosurgical oncology",
abstract = "The Brain and Spine Center at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is a leading multidisciplinary referral center for patients with nervous system (NS) tumors. It has a wealth of clinical experience and an internationally recognized leadership role in the management of NS cancers. In that context, an informatics infrastructure that allows the archiving of both the prospective and retrospective characterization of patients, diseases, treatments, and outcomes is invaluable. We describe our experience with the Neurosurgical Oncology Database, a database that has provided valuable, extensive, and readily searchable data on multifaceted patient, tumor, and treatment characteristics for many years, successfully serving as an administrative and operational resource and as a resource for retrospective and prospective research endeavors.",
keywords = "Data management, Database, Informatics, Information systems, Neurosurgical oncology",
author = "Dima Suki and Wildrick, {David M.} and Raymond Sawaya",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by Department of Neurosurgery funds, by two database grants from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and by gifts from philanthropic donors, especially the Anne C. Brooks and Anthony D. Bullock III Distinguished Chair in Neurosurgery endowment fund awarded to RS. Funding Information: Funding for the database over the years was provided by departmental funds, two MD Anderson Cancer Center institutional database grants, as well as by designated and undesignated philanthropic donor funds. Publisher Copyright: Copyright {\textcopyright} 2018 Suki, Wildrick and Sawaya. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.3389/fonc.2018.00593",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "8",
journal = "Frontiers in Oncology",
issn = "2234-943X",
publisher = "Frontiers Media S. A.",
number = "DEC",
}