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A.4<br />

A.4 Integrated Data Management<br />

All study data will be mirrored between <strong>the</strong> integration center sites in order to achieve a high<br />

degree <strong>of</strong> availability. Toge<strong>the</strong>r with all services also being provided in identical ways, each<br />

integration center can stand in for <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r in case <strong>of</strong> any failure.<br />

Because <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> complexity <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se tasks and <strong>the</strong> effort required to fulfill <strong>the</strong>m with <strong>the</strong> necessary<br />

degree <strong>of</strong> reliability, <strong>the</strong> option <strong>of</strong> a centralized service being provided by <strong>the</strong> integration<br />

centers saves considerable effort in comparison to any o<strong>the</strong>r solution that relies on local<br />

data storage at <strong>the</strong> study centers.<br />

A.4.3.7 Analysis and use<br />

The integration centers implement <strong>the</strong> technical part <strong>of</strong> making study data available for scientific<br />

analysis, while <strong>the</strong> administrative part is managed by <strong>the</strong> transfer unit.<br />

Analyses can ei<strong>the</strong>r be executed on a computation platform provided by <strong>the</strong> integration<br />

centers (by granting access to project-specific views <strong>of</strong> subsets <strong>of</strong> study data, such that<br />

study data never leave <strong>the</strong> platform if not necessary), or specific subsets can be prepared,<br />

additionally coded with new pseudonyms, exported, and transferred physically to <strong>the</strong> project<br />

partner analyzing <strong>the</strong> data.<br />

Background literature to <strong>the</strong> topics covered in this chapter is in references 751-780.<br />

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