Facilitating collaborative research: Implementing a platform supporting data harmonization and pooling

Norsk Epidemiologi

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 221-224

  Doiron, Dany ^a   Raina, Parminder ^b   Ferretti, Vincent ^c   L'Heureux, François ^a   Fortier, Isabel ^a,d  

^a Public Population Project in Genomics P3G   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ONTARIO INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DATA REPOSITORY; COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DATA HARMONIZATION; DATA POOLING; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; RESEARCH; RESEARCH ETHICS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 84862993403     PISSN: 08032491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5324/nje.v21i2.1497     Document Type: Article

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