Transfer of automated laboratory data collected during routine clinical care from the laboratory information system into a database format that enables linkage to other administrative (e.g., patient characteristics) or clinical (e.g., medication, diagnoses, procedures) data provides a valuable tool for clinical epidemiological research...
Keywords: clinical chemistry, clinical epidemiology, laboratory medicine, pharmacoepidemiology, research database
01/2007 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de Gruyter