ProMISe is an Internet based application for the Design, Maintenance and Use of (clinical) data management projects. Using ProMISe the design and implementation of single and multi center data management projects can be performed without any programming effort, thus allowing the project coordinators as well as the users to fully concentrate on the clinical contents and logistics of the study at hand.
In the way a word processor is a generic tool to produce an unlimited variety of text documents, ProMISe is a generic program (or rather, a collection of applications) which allows a Designer to create and maintain an unlimited number of data mangement projects. In contrast to a word processor (like Microsoft Word) however, the source code of ProMISe is available to the Administrator and consists mainly of a collection of standard HTML pages and a Microsoft Access program for the maintenance of the implementation of ProMISe on the Server.
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To give you some impression (as of MARCH 16, 2010):
ProMISe, running on 3 production servers, is currently used by 30 research organisations providing the infrastructure for 168 single and multi center studies, both national and international. These organisations perform studies in Cardiology, Bone Marrow Transplants, Perinatology, Orthopaedics, Psychiatry, Oncology, Paediatrics, Neurology as well as more general subjects. Counting from 2003 onwards until march 2010 and counting only projects currently accesible on-line, these projects have 9.426 users which have started a ProMISe session 278.929 times. The data bases in total contain 1.087.972 level-1 records (the top level table in a project, usually a patient) and the log files - as far as online - contain 53.927.160 individual manual modifications executed by users through the ProMISe interface (excluding automatic conversion and uploads and excluding offline logfiles).
The Support Office in the department of Advanced Data Management in Leiden is currently employing 15 (senior) data managers and analists and a scientific programmer and has full access to the statistical staff of the deparment of Biostatistics & BioInformatics of which it is a part.