MEDUS/A: a user-oriented database management system for medical research

MEDUS/A was designed by members of the Health Systems Project at the Harvard School of Public Health. As a general-purpose DBMS, it enables clinical and public health researchers and their staff to define a database and enter, query, and retrieve their data for analysis without a programmer. The system has simultaneously supported a variety of projects in the Harvard Medical Area since 1976 and is ready for release outside of Harvard in a new version written in Standard MUMPS. Though designed for medicine, the system is sufficiently general for other fields.