title: Building the technical infrastructure to support a study on drug safety in a general hospital.
abstract: We describe reorganization steps and the required technical infrastructure to support a multidisciplinary research project aimed at improving the safety of drug therapy in an emergency department (ED) of a community hospital. Assessment of drug safety required consolidation of data from various sources in a single source approach. We solved this by transferring digital data from the hospital information system (HIS) and attached clinical systems into a pseudonymized study database (secuTrial), which is also used as a web based data capturing tool to rate drug associated risk situations, extended by a technical extension for dynamic upload of further data. Paper-based documentation in the ED was digitized using a digital pen technology.
authors: University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. melaine.kirchner@uk-erlangen.de
authors: Melanie
authors: M
authors: Kirchner
authors: Thomas
authors: T
authors: Bürkle
authors: Andrius
authors: A
authors: Patapovas
authors: Anja
authors: A
authors: Mathews
authors: Reinhold
authors: R
authors: Sojer
authors: Fabian
authors: F
authors: Müller
authors: Harald
authors: H
authors: Dormann
authors: Renke
authors: R
authors: Maas
authors: Hans-Ulrich
authors: HU
authors: Prokosch
mesh_terms: D016303:Clinical Pharmacy Information Systems; D003625:Data Collection; D004358:Drug Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration; D005858:Germany; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000458:organization & administration; D006769:Hospitals, General; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D061214:Patient Safety