IMPLEMENTATION AND VALIDATION OF STATISTICAL TESTS IN RESEARCH'S SOFTWARE HELPING DATA COLLECTION AND PROTOCOLS ANALYSIS IN SURGERY.
BACKGROUND
The use of information technology is often applied in healthcare. With regard to scientific research, the SINPE(c) - Integrated Electronic Protocols was created as a tool to support researchers, offering clinical data standardization. By the time, SINPE(c) lacked statistical tests obtained by automatic analysis.


OBJECTIVE
Add to SINPE(c) features for automatic realization of the main statistical methods used in medicine .


METHODS
The study was divided into four topics: check the interest of users towards the implementation of the tests; search the frequency of their use in health care; carry out the implementation; and validate the results with researchers and their protocols. It was applied in a group of users of this software in their thesis in the strict sensu master and doctorate degrees in one postgraduate program in surgery. To assess the reliability of the statistics was compared the data obtained both automatically by SINPE(c) as manually held by a professional in statistics with experience with this type of study.


RESULTS
There was concern for the use of automatic statistical tests, with good acceptance. The chi-square, Mann-Whitney, Fisher and t-Student were considered as tests frequently used by participants in medical studies. These methods have been implemented and thereafter approved as expected.


CONCLUSIONS
The incorporation of the automatic SINPE
Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
Carlos Henrique
CH
Kuretzki
Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
Antônio Carlos Ligocki
AC
Campos
Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
Osvaldo
O
Malafaia
Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
Sandramara Scandelari Kusano de Paula
SS
Soares
Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
Sérgio Bernardo
SB
Tenório
Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
Jorge Rufino Ribas
JR
Timi
D050110:Bariatric Surgery / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002985:Clinical Protocols; D003625:Data Collection / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D012984:Software / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*