Use of relational database on the health and Radon case-control study

Author

Gress, R.E. ; Lyon, J.L.

fYear

1990

fDate

3-6 Jun 1990

Firstpage

492

Lastpage

495

Abstract

The Radon Study is a case-control study of 775 cases and 1125 controls. It will reconstruct the adult life residential history of each subject. When the study was conceived, it was evident that the data required would be extensive and complex; a relational database management system (DBMS) was needed. Because of prior experience with Ingres, it was chosen. Additional software to support telephone interviewing in a real-time system was developed and interfaced with Ingres. The current hardware configuration includes a Microvax II running VMS; it has 6 MB of memory and 200 MB of hard disk. All software has been ported to an Everex 386 and a Sun 386i, each running PC Ingres DBMS

Keywords

medical administrative data processing; microcomputer applications; relational databases; 200 MB; 6 MB; Everex 386; Ingres; Microvax II; PC Ingres DBMS; Radon Study; Sun 386i; VMS; adult life residential history; case-control study; real-time system; relational database; telephone interviewing; Digital multimedia broadcasting; Hardware; History; Information retrieval; Real time systems; Relational databases; Sun; Telephony; Utility programs; Voice mail;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Based Medical Systems, 1990., Proceedings of Third Annual IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Chapel Hill, NC

Print_ISBN

0-8186-9040-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CBMSYS.1990.109438

Filename

109438