Electronic data capture for registries and clinical trials in orthopaedic surgery: open source versus commercial systems.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Collection and analysis of clinical data can help orthopaedic surgeons to practice evidence based medicine. Spreadsheets and offline relational databases are prevalent, but not flexible, secure, workflow friendly and do not support the generation of standardized and interoperable data. Additionally these data collection applications usually do not follow a structured and planned approach which may result in failure to achieve the intended goal.

Questions/purposes

Our purposes are (1) to provide a brief overview of EDC systems, their types, and related pros and cons as well as to describe commonly used EDC platforms and their features; and (2) describe simple steps involved in designing a registry/clinical study in DADOS P, an open source EDC system. WHERE ARE WE N

SUBMITTER: Shah J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3049639 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature