The iCRF Generator: Generating interoperable electronic case report forms using online codebooks.
F1000Res
; 9: 81, 2020.
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in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-32566137
ABSTRACT
Semantic interoperability of clinical data is essential to preserve its meaning and intent when the data is exchanged, re-used or integrated with other data. Achieving semantic operability requires the use of a communication standard, such as HL7, as well as (functional) information standards. Manually mapping clinical data to a medical thesaurus, such as SNOMED CT, is complicated and requires expert knowledge of both the dataset, including its context, and the thesaurus. As an alternative, the (re-)use of codebooks, data definitions which may already have been mapped to a thesaurus, can be a viable approach. We've developed the iCRF Generator, a Java program that can generate the core of an interoperable electronic case report form (iCRF) for several of the major electronic data capture systems (EDCs). To build their CRFs, users can select one or more items from established codebooks, available from an online system called ART-DECOR. By providing an easy to use method to create CRFs for multiple EDCs based on the same codebooks, interoperability can be more easily attained.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Medical Informatics
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Software
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Electronic Health Records
Type of study:
Guideline
Language:
En
Journal:
F1000Res
Year:
2020
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Article
Affiliation country:
Netherlands