Fulcher S F, Burris T E
Clinical Investigation Center, Naval Hospital, Oakland, California.
Ann Ophthalmol. 1988 Jan;20(1):10-6.
A major difficulty facing investigators involved in clinical studies is ensuring the timely follow-up of patients involved in the investigations. Two microcomputer programs are described that create a follow-up calendar for each subject, list patients due to appear for any given month, and generate printouts of subjects who have missed key follow-up appointments. These programs were formulated using dBASE II (Ashton Tate, California), a widely used data base management package suitable for International Business Machines-compatible microcomputers. The programming concept used in formulating these programs can be adapted to most other data base management software systems. These programs are currently enhancing the follow-up of patients enrolled in a prospective ophthalmic surgical protocol and are potentially useful to any investigator involved in prospective studies who has access to a microcomputer.
参与临床研究的调查人员面临的一个主要困难是确保对参与调查的患者进行及时随访。本文描述了两个微机程序，它们为每个受试者创建一个随访日历，列出每个给定月份应前来就诊的患者，并生成错过关键随访预约的受试者的打印件。这些程序是使用dBASE II（加利福尼亚州阿什顿·泰特公司）编写的，dBASE II是一个广泛使用的数据库管理软件包，适用于与国际商业机器公司兼容的微机。编写这些程序所采用的编程概念可适用于大多数其他数据库管理软件系统。这些程序目前正在加强对一项前瞻性眼科手术方案中登记患者的随访，对于任何能够使用微机的参与前瞻性研究的调查人员来说都可能有用。
