Exporting Data from a Clinical Data Warehouse

Abstract

Data Warehouses (DW) are useful tools to support clinical studies as they can provide exports of routine care data for scientific reuse. Exported DW data is usually post-processed and integrated into study databases by study staff that is reasonably trained in specific tools like SPSS and Excel but which are no programmers or computer scientists. DW systems should therefore be configurable to satisfy export format desiderata as much as possible so that exports contain no unnecessary post-processing obstacles. In the presented work the authors analyze various existing DW systems in respect to a list of potential export formats.

Keywords: Clinical data warehouse; export data format.