The emergency department triage of community-acquired pneumonia project data and documentation systems: a model for multicenter clinical trials

Multicenter clinical trials are complex undertakings that require significant resources to ensure efficient, high quality research. This paper describes the goals, design, and implementation of a multicenter clinical trial database management system to support this aim. A large number of study sites...

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Published in:IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics 2006-04, Vol.10 (2), p.377-384
Main Authors: Obrosky, D.S., Edick, S.M., Fine, M.J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Clinical trials
Community-Acquired Infections - epidemiology
Data analysis
data dictionary
data management systems
Database Management Systems
Database systems
Dictionaries
Documentation
Documentation - methods
Emergency Service, Hospital - statistics & numerical data
Guidelines
Information Storage and Retrieval - methods
Lungs
Medical Records Systems, Computerized
Medical services
Multicenter Studies as Topic - methods
Personnel
Pneumonia - classification
Pneumonia - diagnosis
Pneumonia - epidemiology
Pneumonia - therapy
quality assurance
Quality management
Research Design
Triage - statistics & numerical data
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Summary:Multicenter clinical trials are complex undertakings that require significant resources to ensure efficient, high quality research. This paper describes the goals, design, and implementation of a multicenter clinical trial database management system to support this aim. A large number of study sites or patients, and the goal of automatically generating large portions of data management infrastructure from common metadata, motivated the development of the system. This paper also describes extensions for a generalized project documentation system, and discusses plans for further extensions and improvements based on observed strengths, limitations, and anticipated technological change
ISSN:1089-7771
2168-2194
1558-0032
2168-2208
DOI:10.1109/TITB.2005.864369