Desktop software to identify patients eligible for recruitment into a clinical trial: Using SARMA to recruit to the ROAD feasibility trial

Informatics in Primary Care

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-58

  Treweek, Shaun ^a   Pearson, Ewan ^f   Smith, Natalie ^b   Neville, Ron ^c   Sargeant, Paul ^d   Boswell, Brian ^e   Sullivan, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c Westgate Health Centre   (United Kingdom)

^d CSO   (United Kingdom)

^e Software Engineer Calico Jack Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Computerised medical record systems; Computers; Medical informatics; Patient selection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFIDENTIALITY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROCOMPUTER; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

CONFIDENTIALITY; HUMANS; MICROCOMPUTERS; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77951858932     PISSN: 14760320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14236/jhi.v18i1.753     Document Type: Article

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