Abstract
With today's continuing challenge of processing more data with fewer people in less time, many companies in the pharmaceutical industry are developing standard tools and processing components to facilitate speed, productivity, and efficiency in data processing.Traditionally, programmers in the Clinical Information Systems (CIS) Department of Merck Research Laboratories had an individual set of screening tools available, developed, and maintained for each active drug project. Each set required programming support and maintenance by a dedicated programmer. Redundancy and inefficient use of manpower was obvious.CIS has over the past two years developed, implemented, and maintained a set of standard database queries which can be accessed by multiple projects representing several therapeutic areas within its clinical research area. These queries provide users with the same ability to electronically screen data for consistency, completeness, and correctness as with the traditional method described above, but th...
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