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[Efficient multicentric data acquisition via internet - a method evaluation].

J Neymeyer·R Tunn
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Data input in web-htm-forms with a browser is much more efficient in comparison with write in paper mask documents. The specification-compliant forms for data entry as htm-forms are downloaded from the homepage of the project manager by the participants of the study. The transformation of content of different formatted htm-forms is made by the program "security-based form converter (SFC)", which is located on a web server respectively a proxy server. From there the transformed data are returned the project manager via e-mail. Those incoming data are imported into databases by means of ODBC-data source. The data are pivoted from sequential format to table format. The data entry principle presented here is a client-server-structured, web based intranet program. For this purpose only standard software and relational databases with ODBC-interfaces are used; no further registered commercial programs are needed. General data protection is ensured by encrypted data transmission.

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J Neymeyer, R Tunn. 2001. [Efficient multicentric data acquisition via internet - a method evaluation].. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-2001-17239

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