Federated queries of clinical data repositories: Scaling to a national network
Small regional federated data networks are used today for clinical research. National data networks with 100+ hospitals are being built. A conceptual framework was developed for evaluating networks of different sizes. A real four site network was compared to an imagined 4000 site network. Large networks have limitations but can take advantage of their heterogeneity.
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