SURGbase
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Welcome to SURGbase, a surgical audit / database designed by an Australian doctor specifically for the Australian Surgical environment 


What is Surgical Audit?
According to the Australasian College of Surgeons, surgical audit is a comparison against recognised standards of current surgical practice in order to improve the quality of care to patients. Data is collected with defined criteria. Comparisons are undertaken and recommendations for change made and followed up.

The key to surgical audit is to pose sensible questions, and to collate information from a variety of sources to deliver an answer.

Examples of good questions include:

  • What is the stroke rate among patients undergoing carotid surgery in our institution?
  • What is the bile leak rate in our Unit?
  • What is the wound infection rate in all patients having ‘clean’ surgery?
  • What has happened to all of our bowel resections over the past 12 months?
  • How many of our patients had an unplanned returned to theatre < 28 days?
  • Are our Registrars getting enough operative experience?

SURGbase have been performing surgical audit in Australian hospitals for many years, and have refined our techniques for delivering comprehensive answers to sensible, clinically relevant questions.

The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons provides a great resource for those interested in reviewing the requirements of surgical audit. See Surgical Audit and peer review, 2005.

The Western Australian Audit of Surgical Mortality (WAASM) is a peer review process to independently review deaths in surgical patients in Western Australia. It is being used as a model to be implemented nationally. See the Annual Report, 2005

 

Who are SURGbase?
SURGbase designs and maintains clinical databases for the Australian health care sector. The capture of data is ‘live’, entered by users at the time of operative intervention, complication, or discharge. An alternative model involves the use of “data-entry” personnel and paper-based auditing by doctors. We have a proven track record at multi-site hospital networks, running enterprise-wise solutions. Our software can be used by any specialty, at any hospital in Australia.

SURGbase collect the expanded College dataset, and additional fields relevant to particular specialties. Our software was designed by a doctor, and implemented with a view to being very easy to use. In spite of being user-friendly, SURGbase have a team of IT staff who ensure that our databases use current technology and are regularly maintained, updated, and serviced.

Our software produces training logbooks for most surgical specialties, in a format that is consistent with the unique approaches undertaken by each College.

SURGbase are committed to delivering audit solutions for the long-term. Our aim is to integrate with the various Australian surgical colleges, minimizing duplication of specialty-specific datasets within individual enterprises.

If you have an idea for integration / development, please let us know.

 

SURGbase Enterprise
SURGbase Enterprise is our latest software development.  We have designed our software to cater for ANY Surgeon or Registrar, of ANY specialty, including General Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery, Paediatric Surgery, and Gynaecological Surgery. Our reports are a mixture of generic audits, and tailored audits to suit individual specialties.

SURGbase Enterprise Edition is a custom-designed application (Java JDK 1.4.2+ / JBoss J2EE Server 4.0.0+ / Can run on Linux, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003). Desktops require Java Runtime Environment(JRE) 1.4.2+ / Windows XP, Linux, Mac OS X v10.4+ / Pentium 4 2.0Ghz+ recommended. It can be run on SQL Server 2000 (license cost not included), or PostgreSQL. Our system architecture is based on a modern Enterprise multi-tiered architecture that is split into three layers, the rich client is built using a modern Java user interface technology.
 

Contact
SURGbase Pty. Ltd.
PO BOX 395
Nunawading  VIC  3131
Tel 0402 061 023
Email: Info@surgbase.com.au

 

   
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