Assessing clinical trial eligibility with logic expression queries

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-17

  Lonsdale, D W ^a   Tustison, C ^a   Parker, C G ^a   Embley, D W ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical data; Clinical trials; Predicate logic; Virtual medical record

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; WEB SERVICES;

CLINICAL TRIALS; PREDICATE LOGIC; VIRTUAL MEDICAL RECORDS;

QUERY PROCESSING;

EID: 44349104120     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2007.07.005     Document Type: Article

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