Title
Temporal query of attribute-value patient data: utilizing the constraints of clinical studies
Abstract
We describe an interface and architecture for ad hoc temporal query of TrialDB, a clinical study data management system (CSDMS). A clinical study focuses primarily on the effect of therapy on a group of patients, who have individually enrolled in a study at different times. Relative times (chronological offsets from the time of enrollment) are therefore more useful than absolute times when collectively describing therapeutic or adverse events. For logistic reasons, study parameter values are typically recorded at fixed relative times (‘study events’), which serve as time-stamps and can be used by CSDMS temporal query algorithms to simplify temporal computations. The entity-attribute-value model of clinical data storage, used by both CSDMSs and clinical patient record systems, complicates temporal query. To apply temporal operators, data for parameters of interest must first be transiently converted into conventional relational form, with one column per parameter.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1016/S1386-5056(02)00183-1
International Journal of Medical Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Temporal query,Entity-attribute-value databases,Clinical study data management systems,Clinical patient record systems
Data mining,Data collection,Computer data storage,Computer science,Relative times,Operator (computer programming),Clinical study,Data management
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
70
1
1386-5056
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
1.24
8
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Aniruddha M. Deshpande1255.91
Cynthia Brandt223143.89
P M Nadkarni334559.97