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Methods Inf Med 1980; 19(01): 37-41
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1635156
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Data Management in an Epidemiological Study : Experiences from the Iowa 500 Field Follow-up and Family Study

DATENBEARBEITUNG IN EINER EPIDEMIOLOGISCHEN STUDIE: ERFAHRUNGEN AUS DER IOWA 500 FOLLOW-UP- UND FAMILIENFELDSTUDLE
R. F. Woolson   *
1   From the Departments of Preventive Medicine, of Statistics and of Psychiatry, The University of Ioiva, Iowa City, Iowa/ USA
,
M. T. Tsuang   **
1   From the Departments of Preventive Medicine, of Statistics and of Psychiatry, The University of Ioiva, Iowa City, Iowa/ USA
,
L. R. Urban
1   From the Departments of Preventive Medicine, of Statistics and of Psychiatry, The University of Ioiva, Iowa City, Iowa/ USA
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14 February 2018 (online)

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We are now conducting a forty-year follow-up and family study of 200 schizophrenics, 325 manic-depressives and 160 surgical controls. This study began in 1973 and has continued to the present date. Numerous data handling and data management decisions were made in the course of collecting the data for the project. In this report some of the practical difficulties in the data handling and computer management of such large and bulky data sets are enumerated.

Wir führen jetzt ein Vierzig-Jahr-Follow-up und Familienstudien über 200 Schizophrene, 325 Manischdepressive und 160 operative Kontrollpersonen durch. Diese Studie begann im Jahre 1973 und dauert bis zum heutigen Tage an. Im Verlauf der Datensammlung für das Projekt wurden zahlreiche Entscheidungen betreffend Datenhandhabung und Datenbearbeitung gefällt. In diesem Bericht werden einige der praktischen Schwierigkeiten in der Datenhandhabung und der Computerbearbeitung von solch großen und sperrigen Datensätzen aufgezählt.

Key-Words:

Data Management - Biomedical Computing - Medical Records

Schlüssel-Wörter:

Datenbearbeitung - biomedizinische Datenverarbeitung - Krankengeschichten

* Now on leave at Departments of Biomathematics and of Psychiatry


** Oxford University, Oxford, England.


 

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