Web-based electronic data collection system to support electrochemotherapy clinical trial

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 222-230

  Pavlović, Ivan ^a   Miklavćíc, Damijan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Clinical trial; Computer applications; Electronic data collection; Internet

Indexed keywords

DATA RECORDING; DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC MAIL; INTERNET;

CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTRONIC DATA COLLECTION; STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA BASE; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CLINICAL TRIALS; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34047103383     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2006.879581     Document Type: Article

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