Effectiveness of IT-supported patient recruitment: study protocol for an interrupted time series study at ten German university hospitals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As part of the German Medical Informatics Initiative, the MIRACUM project establishes data integration centers across ten German university hospitals. The embedded MIRACUM Use Case "Alerting in Care - IT Support for Patient Recruitment", aims to support the recruitment into clinical trials by automatically querying the repositories for patients satisfying eligibility criteria and presenting them as screening candidates. The objective of this study is to investigate whether the developed recruitment tool has a positive effect on study recruitment within a multi-center environment by increasing the number of participants. Its secondary objective is the measurement of organizational burden and user satisfaction of the provided IT solution.

Methods

The study uses an I

SUBMITTER: Boeker M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10870691 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature