Metadata-driven ad hoc query of patient data: meeting the needs of clinical studies.
Clinical study data management systems (CSDMSs) have many similarities to clinical patient record systems (CPRSs) in their focus on recording clinical parameters. Requirements for ad hoc query interfaces for both systems would therefore appear to be highly similar. However, a clinical study is concerned primarily with collective responses of groups of subjects to standardized therapeutic interventions for the same underlying clinical condition. The parameters that are recorded in CSDMSs tend [...]
Author(s): Deshpande, Aniruddha M, Brandt, Cynthia, Nadkarni, Prakash M
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.m1034