Adapting a Hospital Information System to Data Collection for Clinical Research.
Year: 1985
Type: article
Abstract: A hospital-wide medical information system (MIS) has been adapted to serve as a specialized data collection vehicle for an outpatient clinical trial. The system provides structured data collection, automatic encoding of data elements (and some values), and entry of both fixed- and variable-length data. Collected items are automatically passed to a general-purpose computing facility for storage, manipulation, and analysis. Protocol data is entered directly by physicians and nurses at the time of patient contact, using MIS terminals and procedures already familiar to them by virtue of routine use for patient care. Protocol data is improved in accuracy, completeness, and timeliness, at very low marginal cost.
Source: PubMed Central
Authors: John L. Foy, Alan G. Palestine, Regina C. Nealon, William D. Vincent, Robert B. Nussenblatt, Thomas Lewis
Language: English
Subfield: Health Information Management
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W204661532