Innovating to enhance clinical data management using non-commercial and open source solutions across a multi-center network supporting inpatient pediatric care and research in Kenya

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 184-192

  Tuti, Timothy ^a   Bitok, Michael ^a   Paton, Chris ^b   Makone, Boniface ^a   Malla, Lucas ^a   Muinga, Naomi ^a   Gathara, David ^a   English, Mike ^a,b  

^a KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical data management; Clinical research; Metaprogramming; Open source; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DOCUMENTATION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LOGIC; MULTICENTER STUDY; PEDIATRICS; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); HOSPITALIZATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KENYA; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; SOFTWARE;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATA COLLECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; KENYA; OWNERSHIP; PEDIATRICS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84959559273     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocv028     Document Type: Article

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