Victor Weidtman (medical doctor)

Victor Weidtman (born October 7, 1919 in Bremen ; † January 26, 2014 in Frechen ) was a German doctor and professor of " Medical Documentation and Statistics " at the University of Cologne .

Life

Weidtman received his doctorate in medicine in 1955 and initially worked as a medical assistant at the children's clinic at the University of Cologne. After his recognition as a pediatrician , he was chief custodian under the then director Carl-Gottlieb Bennholdt-Thomsen , later an academic senior counselor.

In December 1969, Victor Weidtman completed his habilitation with investigations into computer methods in the diagnosis of clinical pediatrics. He then took over the chairmanship of the documentation working group of the German Society for Pediatrics (today: German Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine - DGKL) and headed the Pediatric Working Group in the German Society for Medical Documentation and Statistics (today: German Society for Medical Informatics , Biometry and Epidemiology eV - GMDS).

In addition to the clinical work under the then director of the Children's Clinic at the University of Cologne, Erich Gladtke , Weidtman increasingly devoted himself to questions relating to the use of computers in pharmacokinetics and diagnostics as well as the application of biometric methods in medicine.

In 1973 he was appointed full professor at the University of Cologne and from 1974 until his retirement in 1984 he was appointed first director of the newly founded Institute for Medical Documentation and Statistics at the University of Cologne (now: Institute for Medical Statistics, Epidemiology and Computer Science).

Act

In 1975 Weidtman published the first edition of the diagnostic code for pediatrics. He worked on the development of a uniform examination booklet for the early detection of diseases in children, which had been mandatory nationwide since 1977, the so-called yellow U-booklet (children's examination booklet ). In the same year he took part in the nationwide survey on early detection measures in childhood and the so-called "Bremen Study".

In 1989 and 1996 the adaptation of the ICD-10 diagnostic code for pediatrics followed.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituaries [1]
2. ↑ Deutsches Ärzteblatt 91, Issue 40, October 7, 1994 (83): Prof. Dr. med. Victor Weidtman, [2]
3. ↑ Weidtman, Victor: Diagnostic Key for Pediatrics . With the collaboration of Hj. Cremer u. B. Graubner. 2., greatly expanded u. revised Ed., Springer. 1989.
4. ↑ Weidtman, Victor: Diagnostic Key for Pediatrics ICD-10. With the collaboration of Hj. Cremer u. B. Graubner. 3rd, completely revised u. exp. Ed., Springer. 1996.

literature

• Weidtman, Victor: Computer assistance in clinical differential diagnostics (procedure and problem of diagnosis selection with large probability-parameter-free symptom-disease matrix). Meth. Inform. Med. 10, 91-96. 1971.
• Weidtman, Victor and Reutersberg, Heinz: Hierarchical and synonymous relationships of symptoms as a practical problem in computer diagnostics . In computer-assisted medical diagnostics (Eds. Lange, HJ and Wagner, G.). Schattauer, Stuttgart 1973.
• Reutersberg, Heinz, Schütt, Alexander and Weidtman, Victor: Creating and maintaining a machine-independent computer system for interactive diagnostic support . In Medical Computing, Proceedings of an International Symposium, Toulouse 22-25 March 1977 (Ed. By M. Laudet, J. Anderson, F. Begon). Taylor & Francis Ltd., London 1977.