HIS-Based Support of Follow-Up Documentation - Concept and Implementation for Clinical Studies.
Follow-up data must be collected according to the protocol of each clinical study, i.e. at certain time points. Missing follow-up information is a critical problem and may impede or bias the analysis of study data and result in delays. Moreover, additional patient recruitment may be necessary due to incomplete follow-up data. Current electronic data capture (EDC) systems in clinical studies are usually separated from hospital information systems (HIS) and therefore [...]
Author(s): Herzberg, S, Fritz, F, Rahbar, K, Stegger, L, Schäfers, M, Dugas, M
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2010-08-RA-0047