ExaCT: Automatic extraction of clinical trial characteristics from journal publications

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Kiritchenko, Svetlana ^a   De Bruijn, Berry ^a   Carini, Simona ^b   Martin, Joel ^a   Sim, Ida ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD;

HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77957105153     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-10-56     Document Type: Article

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