Title

CliniProteus: A flexible clinical trials information management system

Authors

Venkatarajan Mathura^1,*, Mahendiranath Rangareddy², Pankaj Gupta¹, Michael Mullan¹

Affiliation

¹Roskamp Institute, Sarasota, Florida 34243, USA; ²Optimal Solutions and Technology, Maryland

001-941-752-2949

Email

venkat@rfdn.org; * Corresponding author

Article Type

Software

Date

received December 15, 2007; accepted December 18, 2007; published online December 28, 2007

Clinical trials involve multi-site heterogeneous data generation with complex data input-formats and forms. The data should be captured and queried in an integrated fashion to facilitate further analysis. Electronic case-report forms (eCRF) are gaining popularity since it allows capture of clinical information in a rapid manner. We have designed and developed an XML based flexible clinical trials data management framework in .NET environment that can be used for efficient design and deployment of eCRFs to efficiently collate data and analyze information from multi-site clinical trials. The main components of our system include an XML form designer, a Patient registration eForm, reusable eForms, multiple-visit data capture and consolidated reports. A unique id is used for tracking the trial, site of occurrence, the patient and the year of recruitment.

http://www.rfdn.org/bioinfo/CTMS/ctms.html

clinical trial; XML; NET; eCRF

Citation

Mathura et al., Bioinformation 2(4): 163-165 (2007)

Edited by

P. Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.