Integrated Data Integration And Statistical Analysis Platform For Multi Center Epilepsy Research PDF Download

Epilepsy is a common serious neurological disorder that affects 65 million people across the world with significant impact on their quality of life. The Managing Epilepsy Well (MEW) Network consisting of 8 study sites is a US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded initiative to develop and implement self-management techniques for epilepsy patients. The MEW database (MEW DB) now present 1681 patient data records. To support cohort identification, data exploration, research query, and statistical method using the MEW DB, we have developed an integrated informatics platform called Insight. The primary features of Insight include: (1) the ability to select suitable research studies according to the inclusion/exclusion criteria; (2) the ability to visualize distribution of data corresponding to various data elements; and (3) the ability to build cohort queries for given requirement. In this thesis project, we have developed the second release of the Insight platform with the implementation of a new feature for statistical data analysis that is critical in large-scale patient cohort studies. The second release version of Insight includes a comprehensive re-engineering of the platform using Django Web development framework. We conducted two types of user evaluation, namely “first click testing” and “user satisfaction survey” and the results demonstrate that Insight is strongly approved by the users.