Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis: Business Intelligence Applied to Patient Monitoring: CAPD Study and Statistics

Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD) is one of the many treatments for patients with advanced kidney disease. It is a treatment that needs regular monitoring and understanding of all the factors of blood and urine samples of each patient to understand if the treatment is going well. This article will explore data information from patients undergoing CAPD procedure. This data information helps to comprehend how interoperability acts in a Health Information System since this data contains patients' personal information but also patients' blood and urine samples' results, meaning all the services must be connected. In this work, it is used Business Intelligence process to prove that all the information available can be useful to understand the treatment above-mentioned and also how can several factors influence or not the number of patients going through kidney failure and CAPD by the study of indicators.