HELP Study Data Dictionary / Catalog of Items

The HELP study was a clinical trial in the form of a multicenter interventional randomized controlled trial (RCT) at five German university hospitals, conducted from 2020 to 2022. It aimed to enhance the clinical management of Staphylococcus bacteremia and used data both from Electronic Health Records (EHR), provided by German university hospital's Data Integration Centers in the HL7 FHIR format (German profiles of the Medical Informatics Initiative Core Data Set – MII CDS), as well as data from Electronic Case Report Forms (eCRF) used in the study for data which was too unstructered or not availabe in the EHR (hybrid data collection approach).This dataset is a tabular listing and description of the data items used in the study and serves (primarily) as a template for information and data modeling.