Will they participate? Predicting patients' response to clinical trial invitations in a pediatric emergency department

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 671-680

  Ni, Yizhao ^a   Beck, Andrew F ^a   Taylor, Regina ^a   Dyas, Jenna ^a   Solti, Imre ^a   Grupp Phelan, Jacqueline ^a   Dexheimer, Judith W ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Machine learning; Patient directed precision recruitment; Predictive modeling; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; MACHINE LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MODEL; MULTICENTER STUDY; RECALL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SOCIAL STATUS; VALIDATION PROCESS; ALGORITHM; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION;

ALGORITHMS; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; MACHINE LEARNING; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION;

EID: 84981287119     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocv216     Document Type: Article

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