This retrospective cohort study aimed to evaluate the association between ambulatory status at discharge and six-month post-discharge mortality among adults with coronavirus disease (COVID-19). We analyzed data from 398 patients aged over 18 admitted to a tertiary hospital in South Korea between December 2019 and June 2022. Patients were classified into two groups based on their ambulatory status at discharge: ambulatory (able to walk independently, n = 286) and non-ambulatory (unable to walk independently, requiring wheelchair or bed-bound, n = 112).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The American Society for Clinical Oncology recently launched the minimal common oncology data elements project to facilitate cancer data interoperability. However, clinical data are often unrecorded in an organized way, and converting them into a structured format can be time-consuming. Clinical Data Warehouse (CDW) is a database that consolidates data from different clinical sources.
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