Identifying patients for clinical trials using fuzzy ternary logic expressions on HL7 messages

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 169, Issue , 2011, Pages 170-174

  Majeed, Raphael W ^a   Röhrig, Rainer ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Communication server; Data warehouse; Fuzzy logic; Hl7; Patient recruitment; Ternary logic

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CIRCUITS; DATA WAREHOUSES; HOSPITALS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNICATION SERVERS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INCLUSION AND EXCLUSIONS; LABORATORY INFORMATION SYSTEM; PATIENT RECRUITMENT; TERNARY LOGIC;

FUZZY LOGIC;

EID: 83055191986     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-806-9-170     Document Type: Conference Paper

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