WEB ACCESSIBLE DATABASE

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WEB ACCESSIBLE DATABASE
Babaji
for

• NEUROSURGEONS

G Narenthiran, Slavin K, Ganesalingam G
Chicago (UIC) London (Kings Medicine)
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Often hear

• Is there a national database ?
• .. a national database would be helpful
• it is expensive to set-up a on-line database..

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Hierarchy
Wisdom
Verified
Knowledge
Peer-reviewed
Information
Analysis
Organised data
Database
Raw data
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Database systems

• Paper
• Computerised
• Common
• Microsoft Access
• FileMaker Pro

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Web accessible database
Without help from IT professionals
Reasonable cost
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Method

• Hardware
• Software
• Internet connection

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Hardware

• Campaq Laptop
• Pentium II 400 MHz
• 6 Gb hard drive
• 96 MB RAM
• We initially used a laptop to run the database
  but, it gets very hot. So we abandoned the laptop
  and acquired a desktop computer.

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Hardware

• Compaq desktop
• 2.5 GHz Pentium 4
• 80 Gb hard drive
• 256 MB RAM

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Software

• FileMaker Pro 6 unlimited

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Norton anti-virus
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Norton Firewall
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Broadband connection

• BT Business 500
• 512 kB/s
• ADSL Modem
• Phone filter
• Fixed IP address

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Database

• Database of functional neurosurgery targets

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Results

• Database of functional neurosurgery targets
• http//81.137.249.16
• 3 records

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Costs

• Desktop 700
• Filemaker Pro unlimited 990
• Broadband fixed IP set-up 150
• Broadband IP 1 year rental 600

Total 2440
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Conclusion

• It is feasible to set-up and run an
  Web-accessible on-line database at reasonable
  cost without support from IT professionals
• FileMaker 6 Unlimited provides a means of setting
  up web-based databases which could be utilised
  for multi-instituitional data collection.

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Authors

• G Narenthiran, QMC, Nottingham
• IJ Robertson, QMC, Nottingham
• K Slavin, University of Illinois at Chicago, US
• G Ganesalingam, Department of Medicine, Kings
  College Hospital

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