title: ["Notebook computer" in combination with WWW-technology in multicenter clinical trials and for chronic patient care].
abstract: Our purpose was to determine conditions, under which the use of hand-held computers in the diagnosis and therapy of patients with chronic diseases seems to be handy. Two scenarios are presented showing the employment of these computers in a doctor's office and in multicenter clinical trials. Security-related aspects involved in transferring medical data via the internet are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Medizinische Statistik, Informatik und Epidemiologie, Universität zu Köln. Andreas.Koop@medizin.uni-koeln.de
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Koop
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gatermann
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mösges
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D003201:Computers / Q000639:trends*; D003219:Confidentiality; D005568:Forms and Records Control / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000639:trends; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008122:Local Area Networks / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000379:methods*; D008499:Medical Records / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D015337:Multicenter Studies as Topic; D005791:Patient Care / Q000379:methods