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ArticleJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA

A technical infrastructure to conduct randomized database studies facilitated by a general practice research database.

Georgio Mosis, Albert E Vlug, Mees Mosseveld, Jeanne P Dieleman, Bruno C Stricker, Johan van der Lei, Miriam C J M Sturkenboom

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Article in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Configuration challenges: implementing translational research policies in electronic medical records.Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges · 2007
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  5. Implementing Single Source: the STARBRITE proof-of-concept study.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
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7 authors.

Georgio MosisDepartment of Medical Informatics, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. g.mosis@gmail.com
Albert E Vlug
Mees Mosseveld
Jeanne P Dieleman
Bruno C Stricker
Johan van der Lei
Miriam C J M Sturkenboom

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

General practice research databases are increasingly used to study intended and unintended effects of treatments. However, confounding by indication remains a major problem. The randomized database study methodology has been proposed as a method to combine the strengths of observational database (generalizability) and the strength of the randomized clinical trial (RCT) design (randomization). We developed an infrastructure that enables the execution of randomized database studies with treatment randomization facilitated by a general practice research database. The requirements posed by the methodology of randomized database studies were facilitated by software components. Our assessment showed that it is technically possible to conduct randomized trials in general practice according to the randomized database design. The infrastructure facilitated the conduct of randomized database studies in general practice but some practical difficulties and methodological issues remain. The technical infrastructure seems to be both promising and potentially feasible to facilitate future randomized database studies, although the methodology needs to be evaluated in more detail.

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Databases, FactualFamily PracticeMedical Records Systems, ComputerizedRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicBiomedical ResearchFeasibility StudiesInformation Storage and RetrievalSoftware

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PMID16049228
PMCPMC1294030

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