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Recording and manipulating clinical data
Author(s) -
THRUSFIELD M. V.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
journal of small animal practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.7
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1748-5827
pISSN - 0022-4510
DOI - 10.1111/j.1748-5827.1983.tb00358.x
Subject(s) - medicine , data collection , data science , value (mathematics) , affect (linguistics) , computer science , mathematics , linguistics , statistics , philosophy , machine learning
Clinical records are required to manage individual patients and are of collective value to epidemiological investigations. Data recording systems vary in design and complexity and these features affect the power of the system to manipulate record components. A system must be tailored to individual requirements; this necessitates a knowledge of data collection principles and currently available techniques.