An umbrella protocol for standardized data collection (SDC) in rectal cancer: a prospective uniform naming and procedure convention to support personalized medicine

Elisa Meldolesi; Johan van Soest; Nicola Dinapoli; Andre Dekker; Andrea Damiani; Maria Antonietta Gambacorta; Vincenzo Valentini

doi:10.1016/j.radonc.2014.04.008

An umbrella protocol for standardized data collection (SDC) in rectal cancer: a prospective uniform naming and procedure convention to support personalized medicine

Radiother Oncol. 2014 Jul;112(1):59-62. doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2014.04.008. Epub 2014 May 19.

Authors

Elisa Meldolesi¹, Johan van Soest², Nicola Dinapoli³, Andre Dekker², Andrea Damiani³, Maria Antonietta Gambacorta³, Vincenzo Valentini³

Affiliations

¹ Sacred Heart University, Radiotherapy Department, Rome, Italy. Electronic address: elimlds@gmail.com.
² Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Department of Radiation Oncology (MAASTRO), GROW School for Oncology and Developmental Biology, The Netherlands.
³ Sacred Heart University, Radiotherapy Department, Rome, Italy.

PMID: 24853366
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2014.04.008

Abstract

Predictive models allow treating physicians to deliver tailored treatment moving from prescription by consensus to prescription by numbers. The main features of an umbrella protocol for standardizing data and procedures to create a consistent dataset useful to obtain a trustful analysis for a Decision Support System for rectal cancer are reported.

Keywords: Data mining; Large database; Ontology; Predictive model; Semantic web.

MeSH terms

Data Collection / methods*
Data Mining
Databases as Topic
Decision Support Systems, Clinical
Humans
Precision Medicine*
Prospective Studies
Rectal Neoplasms / therapy*
Software