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Fig. 2

From: Effectiveness of IT-supported patient recruitment: study protocol for an interrupted time series study at ten German university hospitals

Fig. 2

The basic flow of data from the electronic health records (EHRs) to the research repositories to the creation of patient recommendations in the screening list. Treatment data is recorded in the EHR as part of routine care (1), this data is regularly transformed to the OMOP CDM via ETL jobs (2). A query module (3) continuously scans the research repository for patients matching the defined trial eligibility criteria. If potential candidates are found, they are put on a web-based screening list (4), and a notification is sent via email. This notification is received by relevant practitioners or trial personnel (5) and the screening list can be accessed to further manually screen the suggested patients

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