Author(s)

Mamour Guèye^1*, Mame Diarra Ndiaye-Guèye¹, Serigne Modou Kane-Guèye¹, Moussa Diallo¹, Mor Cissé¹, Khalifa Fall¹, Hadja Maimouna Barro Daff¹, Mihimit Abdoulaye¹, Sylvestre Gahungu¹, Sidy Ka², Jean Charles Moreau¹

¹Gynecologic and Obstetric Clinic, Aristide Le Dantec Teaching Hospital, Dakar, Senegal.
²Oncology Clinic, Aristide Le Dantec Teaching Hospital, Dakar, Senegal.

Objectives: To report our experience in using an electronic database for management of breast diseases in a developing country. Materials and methods: E-Breast is a database developed on FileMaker Pro Advanced to serve as patient file and breast diseases registry. The development of the platform, its usage and advantages on a manual filing system are described. Results: For 6 years, we use this database, which accounts more than 2000 patients and includes data from more than 10 years. An overview of the activity is easily generated by E-Breast. The generated reports are used to the routine care of patients, statistics and clinical research. Data entered are immediately useful in addition to simultaneously implement the database for clinical research. Many custom features are integrated. For research purposes, the system has the ability to perform detailed analyses on subsets defined by the user as breast cancer, breast benign diseases, etc. Conclusion: E-Breast has proven to be a useful way of documentation that has become an integral and essential part of the daily activity and also a valuable research tool.

E_Breast, Breast, Electronic Medical Record, Senegal

Guèye, M. , Ndiaye-Guèye, M. , Kane-Guèye, S. , Diallo, M. , Cissé, M. , Fall, K. , Daff, H. , Abdoulaye, M. , Gahungu, S. , Ka, S. and Moreau, J. (2016) E_Breast: A Computerized Database Management System for Breast Diseases Patients in a Low Income Country. Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 6, 754-760. doi: 10.4236/ojog.2016.612093.