Groner G F, Hopwood M D, Palley N A, Sibley W L, Baker W R, Christopher T G, Thompson H K
J Lab Clin Med. 1978 Sep;92(3):325-40.
An interactive minicomputer-based system has been developed that enables the clinical research investigator to personally explore and analyze his research data and, as a consequence of these explorations, to acquire more information. This system, which does not require extensive training or computer programming, enables the investigator to describe his data interactively in his own terms, enter data values while having them checked for validity, store time-oriented patient data in a carefully controlled on-line data base, retrieve data by patient, variable, and time, create subsets of patients with common characteristics, perform statistical analyses, and produce tables and graphs. It also permits data to be transferred to and from other computers. The system is well accepted and is being used by a variety of medical specialists at the three clinical research centers where it is operational. Reported benefits include less elapsed and nonproductive time, more thorough analysis of more data, greater and earlier insight into the meaning of research data, and increased publishable results.
已经开发出一种基于交互式小型计算机的系统，该系统使临床研究人员能够亲自探索和分析其研究数据，并通过这些探索获取更多信息。该系统不需要大量培训或计算机编程知识，使研究人员能够用自己的语言交互式地描述数据，输入数据值时可检查其有效性，将面向时间的患者数据存储在经过严格控制的在线数据库中，按患者、变量和时间检索数据，创建具有共同特征的患者子集，进行统计分析，并生成表格和图表。它还允许数据在其他计算机之间传输。该系统广受好评，在其运行的三个临床研究中心被各类医学专家使用。报告的好处包括减少经过时间和非生产时间，对更多数据进行更全面的分析，对研究数据的意义有更深入、更早的洞察，以及增加可发表的成果。
