Patient Recruitment System for Clinical Trials: Mixed Methods Study About Requirements at Ten University Hospitals

Kai Fitzer   ^{1, 2 *} , MSc ;   Renate Haeuslschmid   ^{3 *} , Dr. rer nat. ;   Romina Blasini   ⁴ , MSc ;   Fatma Betül Altun   ⁵ , MSc ;   Christopher Hampf   ¹ , MSc ;   Sherry Freiesleben   ¹ , MSc ;   Philipp Macho   ⁶ , MSc ;   Hans-Ulrich Prokosch   ⁷ , Prof Dr ;   Christian Gulden   ⁷ , MSc

¹ Core Unit Data Integration Center, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

² Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

³ Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

⁴ Institute of Medical Informatics, University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany

⁵ Medical Informatics Group, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

⁶ Medical Informatics, Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

⁷ Medical Informatics, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

*these authors contributed equally