PARADIGM - TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED PLATFORM FOR REGISTRATION OF PATIENTS IN CLINICAL-TRIALS

A generalised registration-randomisation package, known as paradigm, h as been developed by the Netherlands Cancer Institute and the MRC Canc er Trials Office initiated in association with the EORTC within the Eu roCODE project and partially funded by the European Community. This ra ndomisation software takes into account requirements of four major dat a centres in Belgium, France, The Netherlands and the UK and is suitab le for use at further European Clinical Trial data centres to enable r emote envy of patients into trials. The system became operational at t he start of 1994, and is now in use at three hospitals and data centre s.