Increasing the efficiency of trial-patient matching: automated clinical trial eligibility pre-screening for pediatric oncology patients.

Background: Manual eligibility screening (ES) for a clinical trial typically requires a labor-intensive review of patient records that utilizes many resources. Leveraging state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) and information extraction (IE) technologies, we sought to improve the efficie...

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Published in:	BMC Medical Informatics & Decision Making Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 28 - 29
Main Authors:	Ni, Yizhao, Wright, Jordan, Perentesis, John, Lingren, Todd, Deleger, Louise, Kaiser, Megan, Kohane, Isaac, Solti, Imre
Format:	research Journal Article
Published:	BioMed Central 2015
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost