title: A Query Tool Enabling Clinicians and Researchers to Explore Patient Cohorts.
abstract: Due to the increasing amount of health information being gathered and the potential benefit of data reuse, it is now becoming a necessity for tools, which collect and analyse this data, to support integration of heterogeneous datasets, as well as provide intuitive user interfaces, which allow clinicians and researchers to query the data without needing to form complex SQL queries. The West Midlands Query Tool consists of an easy-to-use graph-based GUI, which interacts with a flexible middleware application. It has the main objective of querying heterogeneous data sources for exploring patient cohorts through a query builder and criteria set.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Digital Healthcare, WMG, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
authors.forename: Sarah N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Lim Choi Keung
authors.affiliation: Institute of Digital Healthcare, WMG, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
authors.forename: Omar
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Khan
authors.affiliation: Institute of Digital Healthcare, WMG, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Asadipour
authors.affiliation: Institute of Digital Healthcare, WMG, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
authors.forename: Huseyin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Dereli
authors.affiliation: Institute of Digital Healthcare, WMG, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: Institute of Digital Healthcare, WMG, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Robbins
authors.affiliation: Institute of Digital Healthcare, WMG, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
authors.forename: Theodoros N
authors.initials: TN
authors.lastname: Arvanitis
mesh_terms: D003196:Computer Graphics; D003628:Database Management Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D012108:Research Personnel; D014584:User-Computer Interface