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Methods Inf Med 1967; 06(01): 8-14
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1636287
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Computer Analyses in Preventive Health Research[*] [**]

Computer-an Alysen in Der PräVentiv-Medizinischen Forschung
M. F. Collen
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The utilization of an automated multitest laboratory as a data acquisition center and of a computer for trie data processing and analysis permits large scale preventive medical research previously not feasible. Normal test values are easily generated for the particular population studied. Long-term epidemiological research on large numbers of persons becomes practical. It is our belief that the advent of automation and computers has introduced a new era of preventive medicine.

Die Benutzung eines automatisierten Laboratoriums als Datenerfassungszentrum und eines Computers zur Datenverarbeitung und Analyse erlaubt eine früher in diesem Ausmaße gar nicht mögliche breit-basige präventiv-medizinische Forschung. Nornrwerte für die untersuchte Population lassen sich ohne Schwierigkeiten ermitteln; epidemiologische Langzeitstudien großer Personengruppen werden damit realisierbar. Wir sind der Uberzeugung, daß das Aufkommen von Automation und Computern eine neue Ära der Präventivmedizin einleitet.

* Paper presented at llth Annual Meeting of the Arbeitsausschuß Medizin in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Dokumentation, October 17, 1966, Stuttgart.


** The research activities of the program are supported in part by grants from the Chronic Disease Division, U.S. Public Health Service and from the Kaiser Foundation Research Institute; Statistics compiled by A. B. Siegelaub, M. A., Data Processing by I.. Davis, M. A.


 

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