Development and Application of IT Systems in Biobank Studies
Modern biobank studies tend to be extremely large and complex, and will need to continue for decades. Their success relies critically upon the development and application of comprehensive information technology (IT) systems, not only to collect and store
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Population Biobank Studies: A Practical Guide
Population Biobank Studies: A Practical Guide
Zhengming Chen Editor
Population Biobank Studies: A Practical Guide
Editor Zhengming Chen Nuffield Department of Population Health University of Oxford Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
ISBN 978-981-15-7665-2 ISBN 978-981-15-7666-9 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7666-9
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Foreword
A large study is not just a small study made larger There can be few books into which the scientific editor has put more decades of epidemiological preparation than Zhengming Chen has into this book or at least into the study that it describes. Now Professor of Epidemiology at Oxford, he began doing epidemiological studies in China more than 30 years ago. He has continued ever since, working on studies in China from a UK base and building in the process the largest collaboration in the world between Chinese and Western randomised and observational studies of population health. Each new study has been considerably larger than its predecessors. Eventually, he and the team he had built up at Oxford were conducting, jointly with co-principal investigators and colleagues in China, rigorously randomised trials with several tens of thousands of participants of widely practicable treatments for common diseases. They were also conducting larger and larger observational epidemiological studies, culminating 15 years ago, as described in this book, in what was the world’s largest blood-based biobank study, with samples stored from half a million apparently healthy adults all over China, with electronic linkage to a
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