Operationalization of the UFuRT methodology for usability analysis in the clinical research data management domain

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 327-333

  Nahm, Meredith ^a,b   Zhang, Jiajie ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Database management systems; HCI; Usability

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCHES; CLINICAL TRIALS; COST DIFFERENCES; DATA-MANAGEMENT SOFTWARES; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DOMAIN SPECIFICS; HCI; MICROSOFT; OPEN SOURCES; SOCIO TECHNICALS; SPREADSHEET PROGRAMS; USABILITY; USABILITY ANALYSIS; USABILITY EVALUATIONS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SPREADSHEETS;

MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; EVALUATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; UFURT METHODOLOGY;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; HUMANS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 62049085719     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2008.10.004     Document Type: Article

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