TERMTrial - Terminology-based documentation systems for cooperative clinical trials

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 11-24

  Merzweiler, A ^a   Weber, R ^a   Garde, S ^b   Haux, R ^c   Knaup Gregori, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clinical trial; Computing methodologies; Data collection; Medical informatics; Terminology

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA PROCESSING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

CLINICAL TRIALS; ELECTRONIC CASE REPORT FORMS (ECRF); REMOTE-DATA-ENTRY-SYSTEMS (RDE);

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; DOCUMENTATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NOMENCLATURE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CLINICAL TRIALS; DOCUMENTATION; GERMANY; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MULTICENTER STUDIES; SOFTWARE; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 15244354993     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2004.11.001     Document Type: Article

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