[Efficient multicentric data acquisition via internet - a method evaluation].
Data input in web-htm-forms with a browser is much more efficient in comparison with write in paper mask documents. The specification-compliant forms for data entry as htm-forms are downloaded from the homepage of the project manager by the participants of the study. The transformation of content of different formatted htm-forms is made by the program "security-based form converter (SFC)", which is located on a web server respectively a proxy server. From there the transformed data are returned the project manager via e-mail. Those incoming data are imported into databases by means of ODBC-data source. The data are pivoted from sequential format to table format. The data entry principle presented here is a client-server-structured, web based intranet program. For this purpose only standard software and relational databases with ODBC-interfaces are used; no further registered commercial programs are needed. General data protection is ensured by encrypted data transmission.
Neymeyer
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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Klinik für Frauenheilkunde und Geburtshilfe der Charité, Abteilung für Urogynäkologie, Berlin, Germany. neymey34@multizenter.de
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D016494:Computer Security; D003625:Data Collection; D004282:Documentation / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006176:Gynecology; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009774:Obstetrics; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012984:Software