Toward assessing clinical trial publications for reporting transparency.

Journal: Journal of biomedical informatics
Published Date:

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To annotate a corpus of randomized controlled trial (RCT) publications with the checklist items of CONSORT reporting guidelines and using the corpus to develop text mining methods for RCT appraisal.

Authors

  • Halil Kilicoglu
    School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, United States.
  • Graciela Rosemblat
    Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, U.S. National Library of Medicine, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, 20894, MD, USA.
  • Linh Hoang
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL.
  • Sahil Wadhwa
    Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA.
  • Zeshan Peng
    Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD 20894, United States.
  • Mario Malicki
    Department of General Practice, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Jodi Schneider
    School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA.
  • Gerben Ter Riet
    Department of General Practice, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.