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Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Patient Care Information System Evaluation: Guidance for the Organizational Decision Maker

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this paper is twofold. First, we describe two important dimensions of patient care information systems (PCIS) evaluation: the domain of evaluation and the different phases of the PCIS implementation...

Keywords: Evaluation, multi-method approach, randomized controlled trial, patient care information system

01/2003 | Methods of Information in Medicine, Schattauer

Physicians' Choice in Using Internet and Fax for Patient Recruitment and Follow-up in a Randomized Controlled Trial

OBJECTIVE: To examine the physicians' preference between Web and fax-based remote data entry (RDE) system for an ongoing randomized controlled trial (RCT) in Japan. METHODS: We conducted a survey among all the collaborating physicians (n = 512) of the CASE-J (Candesartan Antihypertensive Survival Evaluation in Japan) trial, who have been recruiting patients and sending follow-up data using the Web or a fax-based RDE system...

Keywords: randomized controlled trial, Web, fax, physicians’ choice, patient recruitment

01/2004 | Methods of Information in Medicine, Schattauer

Self-management of oral anticoagulation in the elderly: Rationale, design, baselines and oral anticoagulation control after one year of follow-up. A randomized controlled trial

Self-management is safe and reliable in patients with long-term oral anticoagulation (OAC). However, no study has yet assessed the safety and efficacy of OAC self-management in elderly patients with major thromboembolic and haemorrhagic complications as primary outcomes...

Keywords: Oral anticoagulation, self-management, elderly patients, randomized controlled trial

03/2007 | Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Schattauer

Feasibility of a randomized controlled trial testing nifedipine vs. placebo for the treatment of preterm labor

Aims: Nifedipine is believed to be a superior tocolytic agent on the basis of efficacy and side-effect profile, but was never prospectively evaluated in a placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial (RCT)...

Keywords: Feasibility study, nifedipine, preterm labor, randomized controlled trial, tocolysis