Clinical research databases?A historical review
- 1 December 1990
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Medical Systems
- Vol. 14 (6), 323-344
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00996713
Abstract
The increasing importance of computer-stored databases for clinical research prompted a historical review of their evolution over the past three decades. The special problems associated with the computer processing of clinical research data were reviewed, and the various types of clinical research registers and databases were described.Keywords
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