title: A World Wide Web-based user interface for a data management system for use in multi-institutional clinical trials--development and experimental operation of an automated patient registration and random allocation system.
abstract: We have employed the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) to develop an automated patient registration and random allocation system for use in a multi-institutional clinical trial. We made it available on-line to World Wide Web clients in each hospital through a user friendly graphical user interface. During experimental operation, the physicians found it satisfactory from the viewpoint of both ease of operation and response time. For the development of a graphical user interface in network-based information system for use in multi-institutional clinical trials, HTTP/HTML has several advantages over an ordinary client-server model. Therefore, we concluded that we would adopt HTP/HTML for the construction of user interfaces for physicians in each spital and for data managers in our coordinating center.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kiuchi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ohashi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Konishi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Bandai
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kosuge
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kakizoe
mesh_terms: D017024:Chemotherapy, Adjuvant; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D016494:Computer Security; D005568:Forms and Records Control / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D019146:Hypermedia; D008331:Management Information Systems; D015337:Multicenter Studies as Topic; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy; D011897:Random Allocation; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D014584:User-Computer Interface