Building the technical infrastructure to support a study on drug safety in a general hospital
Kirchner, M.; Bürkle, T.; Patapovas, A.; Mathews, A.; Sojer, R.; Müller, F.; Dormann, H.; Maas, R.; Prokosch, H.-U.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 169: 325-329
2011
ISSN/ISBN: 0926-9630 PMID: 21893766 Document Number: 651153
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.