 | Advantages to
clinical testers, monitors, data managers, and sponsors:
Online
electronic data acquisition is extremely fast - and less error-prone,
thanks to integrated plausibility checks. The automated transfer of
data from measuring instruments and data acquisition systems greatly
reduces the effort of data acquisition, and it helps avoid data entry
errors. Quantitative and qualitative statements may be made at any
point of the study - even as data acquisition is still in progress.
This means that the study designers can react to current findings on
the spot and - for example - modify treatment and examination
parameters as the study is being conducted. The results of these
modifications can itself be examined on an ad-hoc basis.
It is now possible to cut the time from entering the last patient data
(Last Patient Out) to closing the database from an average of four
months (!) in conventional paper-based research documentation - to as
little as 48 hours.
This enormous time saving is
made possible by concurrent processing of data acquisition, query
management, and data consistency checks as well as centralized online
data storage.
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