MEDUS/A: a user-oriented database management system for medical research
Abstract
MEDUS/A was designed by members of the Health Systems Project at the Harvard School of Public Health. As a general-purpose DBMS, it enables clinical and public health researchers and their staff to define a database and enter, query, and retrieve their data for analysis without a programmer. The system has simultaneously supported a variety of projects in the Harvard Medical Area since 1976 and is ready for release outside of Harvard in a new version written in Standard MUMPS. Though designed for medicine, the system is sufficiently general for other fields.
References
[1]
Larry Goldstein, Chester King, Kevin Gross, and Robert Strong, "MEDUS/A - A General-Purpose Database Management System." Proceedings of the 1980 MUMPS Users' Group Meeting (in press); available from the authors. A more detailed description of the functions and use of MEDUS/A.
[2]
Chester King, Larry Goldstein, Robert Strong, and Faye Evans. "Database Management in Medicine and Health Policy Research: MEDUS/A" in the Proceedings of the Symposium for Computer Applications in Medical Care, Washington, DC, 1980. Examples of the use of MEDUS/A.
[3]
Larry Goldstein, "MEDUS/A: A High-Level Database Management System," in the Proceedings of the Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, Washington, D.C., 1980 A discussion of the design philosophy behind MEDUS/A.
[4]
Chester King, Robert Strong, Larry Goldstein, "Comparing Data Management Systems in Clinical Research: A Survey," in the Proceedings of the Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, Washington, DC, 1980.
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Published: 01 December 1980
Published in SIGIR Volume 15, Issue 3
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