Reengineering a database for clinical trials management: Lessons for system architects
Reengineering a database for clinical trials management: Lessons for system architects
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10.1016/s0197-2456(00)00070-2
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2000-10-01
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Miller, PL
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Brandt, CA;Nadkarni, P;Miller, PL
本文介绍了临床研究管理数据库系统Trial/DB的改进过程。该系统的增强是由需要最大限度地提高开发人员在支持众多和不同的用户，研究设计者在建立新的研究，管理员在管理正在进行的研究的有效性。Trial/DB最初被设计为在单个机构内的局域网上工作，并且基本的架构更改是必要的，以使其在互联网上有效且安全地工作。此外，随着其使用扩展到不同的用户社区，进行了更改，以使研究设计和项目管理的过程适应每个研究的主要研究者和管理人员的工作方式。在这个过程中吸取的教训应该证明是有益的系统架构师以及电子病历系统的管理人员。(C)Elsevier Science Inc. 2000.
This paper describes the process of enhancing Trial/DB, a database system for clinical studies management. The system's enhancements have been driven by the need to maximize the effectiveness of developer personnel in supporting numerous and diverse users, of study designers in setting up new studies, and of administrators in managing ongoing studies. Trial/DB was originally designed to work over a local area network within a single institution, and basic architectural changes were necessary to make it work over the internet efficiently as well as securely. Further, as its use spread to diverse communities of users, changes were made to let the processes of study design and project management adapt to the working styles of the principal investigators and administrators for each study. The lessons learned in the process should prove instructive for system architects as well as managers of electronic patient record systems. (C) Elsevier Science Inc. 2000.