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OPTIK: a database for understanding catchment areas to guide mobilization of cancer center assets
- Source :
- Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press (OUP), 2020.
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Abstract
- An increasingly diversified demographic landscape in rural and urban America warrants the attention of The University of Kansas Cancer Center (KU Cancer Center) researchers, clinicians, outreach staff and administrators as the institution assesses ways to reach its expansive, bi-state catchment area. Within the counties of the KU Cancer Center catchment area, patient level and public health data are available and categorized by varying geographic regional boundaries. Multiple data sources and different data collection processes complicate summarizing catchment area data. A curated data warehouse that retrieves and structures the data, with a common denominator, can support meaningful use of the data in a standard and consistent format. The KU Cancer Center built a data warehouse to Organize and Prioritize Trends to Inform KU Cancer Center (OPTIK), which functions to streamline the process of synthesizing data regarding Kansas and Missouri demographics, cancer risk factors and incidence and mortality rates. OPTIK standardizes these diverse data sources to enable analyses of the cancer burden at local, regional and national levels while upholding a strict standard of patient privacy. The OPTIK database enables researchers to use available data and create heat maps and other visualizations to aid in funding proposals, presentations and research activities. Furthermore, using knowledge provided by OPTIK, the KU Cancer Center is able to prioritize action items for research and outreach and more effectively communicate the impact of those efforts.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Databases, Factual
MEDLINE
Cancer Care Facilities
computer.software_genre
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Catchment Area, Health
Neoplasms
medicine
Humans
Center (algebra and category theory)
030212 general & internal medicine
Data collection
Database
Data Visualization
Public health
Cancer
medicine.disease
Data warehouse
Outreach
Geography
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
AcademicSubjects/SCI00960
Original Article
Catchment area
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
computer
Information Systems
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17580463
- Volume :
- 2020
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Database
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....582dab16b322ebb0f15487c8e890fd61