Development of an advanced database for clinical trials integrated with an electronic patient record system

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 575-586

  Newsham, Alexander C ^a   Johnston, Colin ^a   Hall, Geoff ^a,d   Leahy, Michael G ^a,e   Smith, Adam B ^b   Vikram, Aditya ^a   Donnelly, Aine M ^a   Velikova, Galina ^a   Selby, Peter J ^a   Fisher, Sheila E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d LEEDS TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Electronic clinical records; Electronic databases; Electronic questionnaires; Head and neck cancer; Healthcare workflow; Integrated care technologies; Internet technologies; Oncology; Touch screen technologies

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RECORDS; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTRONIC DATABASES; ELECTRONIC QUESTIONNAIRE; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; INTEGRATED CARE; INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES; TOUCH SCREEN;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; HEALTH CARE; INTEGRATION; SURVEYS;

EXPERIMENTS;

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DATA BASE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ONLINE SYSTEM; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 79960623929     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: 18790534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2011.04.014     Document Type: Article

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