Clinical Event

Vernacular Definition

1. 1.

   In event planning circles, a “clinical event” is an event, e.g., meeting or party, attended by clinicians as opposed to administrative or financial personnel.

Technical Definitions

1. 1.

   A state transition, normally a “create” or “update” state transition, targeting a record in an electronic medical record system or one of the systems associated with an electronic medical record system.

2. 2.

   A report generated within a clinical trial that is subsequently evaluated for the presence of an adverse event by a clinical trial Clinical Event Committee.

Words often confused by use of the term “Clinical Event” include: Clinical Event (multiple definitions); Adverse Event; Clinical Act; Patient Event, Information Event.

The primary technical definition of “clinical event” includes the kind of “events” that are monitored by a “clinical event monitor”[1–3] used in synchronous or asynchronous decision support functions. Examples of these events include clinical...

Authors and Affiliations

1. Oracle Health Sciences, Redwood Shores, CA, USA

   Dan Russler

Editors and Affiliations

1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

   LING LIU (Professor) (Professor)

2. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

   M. TAMER ÖZSU (Professor and Director, University Research Chair) (Professor and Director, University Research Chair)

Reprints and permissions

© 2009 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC

Policies and ethics