Abstract
The K.U. Leuven Coronary Surgery Data Base (KULCSDB) [1] was started as a clinical research data base in 1980. It structures the preoperative, operative, postoperative and follow-up data of all the patients operated for isolated coronary pathology since 1970 at the K.U. Leuven University Hospital of Gasthuisberg in Leuven Belgium. The current number of records in the data base is 8200 patients with more than 1000 variables for each record. The sum of the real follow-up structured in the data base is 35000 years. The technology of such a large data base and the correct study of time-related events was not available in Europe at the time and therefore many problems and pitfalls were encountered. The purpose of this chapter is to analyze these problems and to communicate them so that the information becomes available to those interested.
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Sergeant, P., Lesaffre, E. (1991). The K.U. Leuven Coronary Surgery Data Base: a clinical research data base. In: Meester, G.T., Pinciroli, F. (eds) Databases for Cardiology. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 115. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3720-1_13
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