Design aspects of a distributed clinical trials information system

Clinical Trials

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 385-396

  Oliveira, A Gouveia ^a   Salgado, Nuno C ^a  

^a Portugal   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DRUG RESEARCH; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CLINICAL TRIALS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33750451202     PISSN: 17407745     EISSN: 17407753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1740774506069156     Document Type: Article

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