Automation in clinical data collection in obstetrics - Enabling pooled IPD studies for fetal heart rate and activity monitoring
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Abstract
Cardiotocography is currently the standard surveillance tool during labour. For this reason, there are large cardiotography datasets available. Several studies gathering additional information of computerized CTG data aiming to improve surveillance during delivery and birth outcome are currently performed. Manual data collection and analysis takes a lot of human resources, is error-prone and study parameters can hardly be adjusted later on. Therefore, a software based approach was chosen to minimize the effort of preparation. The software called “CTG and patient information matcher” (CAPIM) collects relevant CTG signals for a specified patient dataset and under recognition of several parameters. CAPIM was tested with the patient database of Frauenklinik und Poliklinik of Technische Universität München (Munich, Germany). Further hospitals will follow. The cases received from CAPIM will be used to do feasibility studies for two innovative signal processing techniques as „phase-rectified signal averaging“ method on fetal heart rate raw data and „deceleration area“ method to improve prediction of birth outcome.
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2016. Automation in clinical data collection in obstetrics - Enabling pooled IPD studies for fetal heart rate and activity monitoring. PeerJ Preprints 4:e2098v2 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2098v2Author comment
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Martin Daumer is an Academic Editor for PeerJ and has invented the "free heel running pad". He is also the Director of the Sylvia Lawry Centre for MS Research. He is one of the two managing directors of Trium Analysis Online GmbH, together with Michael Scholz (50% ownership each). Trium is a manufacturer of CTG monitoring systems.
Dr. Daumer has served on the scientific advisory board for the EPOSA study; has received funding for travel from ECTRIMS; serves on the editorial board of MedNous; is co-author with Michael Scholz on patents re: Apparatus for measuring activity (Trium Analysis Online GmbH), method and device for detecting a movement pattern (Trium Analysis Online GmbH), device and method to measure the activity of a person (Trium Analysis Online GmbH), co-Author with Christian Lederer of device and method to determine the fetal heart rate from ultrasound signals (Trium Analysis Online GmbH), author of method and device for detecting drifts, jumps and/or outliers of measurement values, coauthor of patent applications with Michael Scholz of device and method to determine the global alarm state of a patient monitoring system, method of communication of units in a patient monitoring system, and system and method for patient monitoring; serves as a consultant for University of Oxford, Imperial College London, University of Southampton, Charite, Berlin, University of Vienna, Greencoat Ltd, Biopartners, Biogen Idec, Bayer Schering Pharma, Roche, and Novartis; and receives/has received research support from the EU-FP7, BMBF, BWiMi, and Hertie Foundation.
Christian Harboeck is employed at Trium Analysis Online GmbH when the study was performed.
Silvia M Lobmaier, Joy Weyrich and Holger J Grundmann are employed at Klinikum rechts der Isar der Technischen Universität München (MRI TUM) when the study was performed.
Christopher Weber and Maximilian Saalfeld are students of Technische Universität München (TUM) when the study was performed.
Author Contributions
Maximilian Saalfeld conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, performed the computation work.
Christopher Weber conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, performed the computation work.
Silvia M Lobmaier conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.
Joy Weyrich conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.
Holger J Grundmann contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.
Christian Harboeck conceived and designed the experiments, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.
Martin Daumer conceived and designed the experiments, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.
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The research in this article did not generate any raw data.
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The authors received no funding for this work.
