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Constructing A Clinical Research Data Management System, Michael C. Quintero
Constructing A Clinical Research Data Management System, Michael C. Quintero
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Clinical study data is usually collected without knowing what kind of data is going to be collected in advance. In addition, all of the possible data points that can apply to a patient in any given clinical study is almost always a superset of the data points that are actually recorded for a given patient. As a result of this, clinical data resembles a set of sparse data with an evolving data schema. To help researchers at the Moffitt Cancer Center better manage clinical data, a tool was developed called GURU that uses the Entity Attribute Value model to handle …