METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING CLINICAL TRIAL DATABASES

摘要

A method and apparatus for facilitating review of clinical data provides a point-and-click, menu-driven approach for reviewing, analyzing, and graphing clinical data (30, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40). Real-time access to clinical information in electronic databases is provided so as to permit clinicians to obtain information in a timely manner. A user is provided with the ability to browse patient profiles (32), perform data queries, reclassify numeric and character variables, create and analyze variable subgroups (74), create basic summary tables (42) and graphic data displays (58). The invention eliminates the time-consuming and problematic conversion step. The invention has the ability to export statistical databases to popular existing data formats. No programming experience is required for using this system.