Distributed Queries for Quality Control Checks in Clinical Trials

Nichols, Nolan and Detwiler, Landon T and Franklin, Joshua D and Brinkley, James F (2011) Distributed Queries for Quality Control Checks in Clinical Trials. In Proceedings, Clinical Research Informatics Summit of the American Medical Informatics Association, pages 115, San Francisco, CA.

Abstract

Operational Quality Control (QC) checks are standard practice in clinical trials and ensure ongoing compliance with the study protocol, standard operating procedures (SOPs) and Good Clinical Practice (GCP). We present a method for defining QC checks as distributed queries over case report forms (CRF) and clinical imaging data- sources. Our distributed query system can integrate time-sensitive information in order to populate QC checks that can facilitate discrepancy resolution workflow in clinical trials.