Studies in health technology and informatics
May 27, 2021
Clinical trial eligibility criteria are important for selecting the right participants for clinical trials. However, they are often complex and not computable. This paper presents the participatory design of a human-computer collaboration method for ...
PURPOSE: Less than 5% of patients with cancer enroll in clinical trials, and 1 in 5 trials are stopped for poor accrual. We evaluated an automated clinical trial matching system that uses natural language processing to extract patient and trial chara...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Apr 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: Cohort definition is a bottleneck for conducting clinical research and depends on subjective decisions by domain experts. Data-driven cohort definition is appealing but requires substantial knowledge of terminologies and clinical data mode...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2018
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 ...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 1, 2017
OBJECTIVE: To develop an open-source information extraction system called Eligibility Criteria Information Extraction (EliIE) for parsing and formalizing free-text clinical research eligibility criteria (EC) following Observational Medical Outcomes P...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jul 1, 2017
OBJECTIVE: To develop automated classification methods for eligibility criteria in ClinicalTrials.gov to facilitate patient-trial matching for specific populations such as persons living with HIV or pregnant women.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jul 1, 2017
OBJECTIVE: Every year, thousands of patients die waiting for disability benefits from the Social Security Administration. Some qualify for expedited service under the Compassionate Allowance (CAL) initiative, but CAL software focuses exclusively on i...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Clinical trials are studies designed to assess whether a new intervention is better than the current alternatives. However, most of them fail to recruit participants on schedule. It is hard to use Electronic Health Record (EHR) data to find eligible ...
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