Delivering informatics for clinical research in developing countries

Jonathan Babbage,Jacqueline Fiore,Naga S Nagisetty,Steven P Larmore

doi:10.1186/1471-2105-13-s12-a24

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Background Not all diseases exist in locations where they are easy to study. The International Centers of Excellence for Malaria Research [1] bring the critical infrastructure necessary for research to parts of these endemic regions. We have implemented some of the existing health care informatics capabilities that deliver on the specific research requirements in a fast, accurate, and secure way in a developing

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Not all diseases exist in locations where they are easy to study
* Correspondence: jonathan.babbage@hc.msu.edu 1Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA Full list of author information is available at the end of the article country [2]
Materials and methods We present an informatics approach that was implemented in Malawi to accommodate six different facilities, over twenty staff members doing data entry, and one field data collector that travels to subjects’ houses

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Not all diseases exist in locations where they are easy to study. The International Centers of Excellence for Malaria Research [1] bring the critical infrastructure necessary for research to parts of these endemic regions. * Correspondence: jonathan.babbage@hc.msu.edu 1Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA Full list of author information is available at the end of the article country [2]. Our approach has been modified to work around some of the unique conditions present in these areas.

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