PASTEL: A semantic platform for assisted clinical trial patient recruitment

Proceedings - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, ICHI 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 269-276

  Damen, David ^a   Luyckx, Kim ^a   Hellebaut, Geert ^a   Bulcke, Tim Van Den ^a  

^a ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Clinical trial; Electronic screening; Health informatics platform; Semantic technology; Translational research

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTRONIC SCREENING; HEALTH INFORMATICS; SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGIES; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH;

HOSPITALS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; SEMANTICS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84893498980     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICHI.2013.39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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