Research article
The development of common data elements for a multi-institute prostate cancer tissue bank: The Cooperative Prostate Cancer Tissue Resource (CPCTR) experience
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* Corresponding author: Michael J Becich becich@pitt.edu
1 Department of Pathology, Center for Pathology Informatics, Benedum Oncology Informatics Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2 Department of Pathology, University of Illinois-Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
3 Cancer Diagnosis Program, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
4 Department of Pathology, New York University, New York, NY, USA
5 Departments of Environmental Medicine and Urology, New York University, New York, NY, USA
6 Departments of Pathology and Urology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
7 Department of Pathology, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
8 Bioinformatics Program, Human and Molecular Genetics Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
BMC Cancer 2005, 5:108 doi:10.1186/1471-2407-5-108
Published: 21 August 2005Additional files
Additional file 1:
CPCTR CDE dictionary CPCTR common data elements' data dictionary with full description and meta-data for each of the CDEs.
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Additional file 2:
CPCTR CDE paper forms. CPCTR paper forms used for data collection of CDEs by data managers. These forms are used for collecting data at remote locations (i.e. physician offices) and then entered into the database.
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