title: A special query tool in the hospital information system to recognize patients and to increase patient numbers for clinical trials.
abstract: A powerful hospital information system (HIS) contains information about diagnostic and disease data of all patients in a hospital. In the university hospital in Frankfurt / Main Germany more than 80% of all wards are completely "paperless". But the identification of patients for clinical trials is very difficult. We developed a special query and reporting tool in the HIS to recognize patients with a specific disease and with basic inclusion and exclusion criteria for a specific clinical trial. With the help of this query tool it is possible to increase significantly the patient numbers for clinical trials in a short period.
authors.affiliation: University Cancer Center, Frankfurt, Germany. Mithat.Koca@kgu.de
authors.forename: Mithat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Koca
authors.forename: Gabriele
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Husmann
authors.forename: Jürgen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jesgarz
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Overath
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Brandts
authors.forename: Hubert
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Serve
mesh_terms: D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D057225:Data Mining / Q000379:methods*; D003628:Database Management Systems; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D005858:Germany; D055991:Health Records, Personal; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D018579:Patient Selection; D012984:Software