Complex analyses on clinical information systems using restricted natural language querying to resolve time-event dependencies.

Journal: Journal of biomedical informatics
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Abstract

PURPOSE: This paper reports on a generic framework to provide clinicians with the ability to conduct complex analyses on elaborate research topics using cascaded queries to resolve internal time-event dependencies in the research questions, as an extension to the proposed Clinical Data Analytics Language (CliniDAL).

Authors

  • Leila Safari
    School of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran. Electronic address: lsafari@znu.ac.ir.
  • Jon D Patrick
    Health Language Analytics, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Electronic address: jonpat@healthll.com.au.