Towards Phenotyping of Clinical Trial Eligibility Criteria.

Journal: Studies in health technology and informatics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Medical plaintext documents contain important facts about patients, but they are rarely available for structured queries. The provision of structured information from natural language texts in addition to the existing structured data can significantly speed up the search for fulfilled inclusion criteria and thus improve the recruitment rate.

Authors

  • Matthias Löbe
    Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology (IMISE), Universität Leipzig, Germany.
  • Sebastian Stäubert
    IMISE, University of Leipzig, Härtelstraße 16-18, 04107 Leipzig, Germany.
  • Colleen Goldberg
    Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology (IMISE), Universität Leipzig, Germany.
  • Ivonne Haffner
    University Cancer Center Leipzig, Germany.
  • Alfred Winter
    IMISE, University of Leipzig, Härtelstraße 16-18, 04107 Leipzig, Germany.