ClinicalTrials.gov as a data source for semi-automated point-of-care trial eligibility screening

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Pfiffner, Pascal B ^a,b   Oh, JiWon ^c   Miller, Timothy A ^a,b   Mandl, Kenneth D ^a,b,d  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^d Harvard Medical School Center for Biomedical Informatics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CLINICALTRIALS.GOV; CRITERION VARIABLE; E-MAIL; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FACTUAL DATABASE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LIBRARY SCIENCE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PATIENT SELECTION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POINT OF CARE SYSTEM; REGISTER;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATIENT SELECTION; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; REGISTRIES;

EID: 84908178934     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0111055     Document Type: Article

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