Evidence-based decision making is becoming increasingly important in many diverse domains, including healthcare, environmental management, and government. This has raised the need ...
Abstract. Clinical trials are fundamental for medical science: they provide the evaluation for new treatments and new diagnostic approaches. One of the most difficult parts of clin...
Paolo Besana, Marc Cuggia, Oussama Zekri, Annabel ...
Abstract--Evidence-based decision making is becoming increasingly important in healthcare. Much valuable evidence is in the form of the results from clinical trials that compare th...
The purpose of a clinical trial is to evaluate a new treatment procedure. When medical researchers conduct a trial, they recruit participants with appropriate health problems and ...
Eugene Fink, Princeton K. Kokku, Savvas Nikiforou,...
As clinical trials and medical population studies grow in size and complexity, a computational infrastructure that can underpin such studies is highly desirable. This should addre...
Abstract The volume and complexity of knowledge produced by medical research calls for the development of technology for automated management and analysis of such knowledge. In thi...
Nikos Gorogiannis, Anthony Hunter, Vivek Patkar, M...
The concept of context-dependent access control has emerged during the last years: Information about the state of a process model of a working environment is combined with general ...
This paper presents a method for extracting purpose statements from clinical trial protocol summaries. Simple summarization technology based on regular expressions and natural lang...
Clinical trial protocols include schedule of clinical trial activities such as clinical tests, procedures, and medications. The schedule specifies temporal constraints on the seque...
Ravi D. Shankar, Susana B. Martins, Martin J. O'Co...
Clinical trials constitute large, complex, and resource intensive activities for pharmaceutical companies. Accurate prediction of patient enrollment would represent a major step f...
Bernard M. McGarvey, Nancy J. Dynes, Burch C. Lin,...