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TERMTrial—terminology-based documentation systems for cooperative clinical trials
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TERMTrial—terminology-based documentation systems for cooperative clinical trials

A. Merzweiler, R. Weber, S. Garde, R. Haux and P. Knaup-Gregori
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine, v 78(1), pp 11-24
2005
PMID: 15780886

Abstract

Clinical trial Computing methodologies Data collection Medical informatics Terminology
Within cooperative groups of multi-center clinical trials a standardized documentation is a prerequisite for communication and sharing of data. Standardizing documentation systems means standardizing the underlying terminology. The management and consistent application of terminology systems is a difficult and fault-prone task, which should be supported by appropriate software tools. Today, documentation systems for clinical trials are often implemented as so-called Remote-Data-Entry-Systems (RDE-systems). Although there are many commercial systems, which support the development of RDE-systems there is none offering a comprehensive terminological support. Therefore, we developed the software system TERMTrial which consists of a component for the definition and management of terminology systems for cooperative groups of clinical trials and two components for the terminology-based automatic generation of trial databases and terminology-based interactive design of electronic case report forms (eCRFs). TERMTrial combines the advantages of remote data entry with a comprehensive terminological control.

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