Abstract
The CLINFO data base management and analysis system is the result of a project sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to identify data management and data analysis activities that are critical to clinical investigation. In February of 1977, one of the three prototype CLINFO systems developed by the RAND Corporation was installed in the Clinical Research Center (CRC) at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The Vanderbilt experience with this CLINFO system over the past five years is described. Its impact on the way clinical research data has been managed and analyzed is discussed in terms of utilization by more than 100 clinical investigators and their staff. The Vanderbilt evaluation of the system and additional information on its usage since the original evaluation is presented.
Factors in the design philosophy of CLINFO which create an environment that enhances the clinical investigator's capabilities to perform computer data management and analysis of his data are discussed.
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