Efficiency and effectiveness evaluation of an automated multi-country patient count cohort system.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With the increase of clinical trial costs during the last decades, the design of feasibility studies has become an essential process to reduce avoidable and costly protocol amendments. This design includes timelines, targeted sites and budget, together with a list of eligibility criteria that potential participants need to match. The present work was designed to assess the value of obtaining potential study participant counts using an automated patient count cohort system for large multi-country and multi-site trials: the Electronic Health Records for Clinical Research (EHR4CR) system.

Methods

The evaluation focuses on the accuracy of the patient counts and the time invested to obtain these using the EHR4CR platform compared to the current questionnaire based proc

SUBMITTER: Soto-Rey I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4423123 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature