The correlation between the number of eligible patients in routine clinical practice and the low recruitment level in clinical trials: A retrospective study using electronic medical records

Trials

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Sumi, Eriko ^a   Teramukai, Satoshi ^b   Yamamoto, Keiichi ^c   Satoh, Motohiko ^d   Yamanaka, Kenya ^d   Yokode, Masayuki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accrual; Clinical informatics; Clinical trials; Eligibility determination; Research patient recruitment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 4 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE;

EID: 84889853192     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-14-426     Document Type: Article

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