title: Using an information warehouse to screen patients for clinical trials: a prototype.
abstract: Success of a clinical trial recruitment process for drug discovery and new treatments depends on screening and identifying eligible patients in a timely manner. This can be a complex and tedious process that in many instances requires a research nurse to manually track patients that may be eligible. At the Ohio State University Medical Center (OSUMC) we have developed a web-based functional prototype that uses the data stored in the Information Warehouse (IW) to screen patients that meet the eligibility criteria for clinical trials. Using this prototype, a researcher can apply a set of inclusion/exclusion criteria pertinent to a research protocol and instantly find patients that may qualify for the clinical trial without revealing their identity. A researcher has access to all detailed historical clinical information such as lab results, diagnosis codes, pathology reports and clinical notes.
authors.affiliation: The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Jyoti
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kamal
authors.forename: Kabardhi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Pasuparthi
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rogers
authors.forename: Jason
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Buskirk
authors.forename: Hagop
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mekhjian
mesh_terms: D002985:Clinical Protocols; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D018579:Patient Selection