Pilot study of a point-of-use decision support tool for cancer clinical trials eligibility.
Many adults with cancer are not enrolled in clinical trials because caregivers do not have the time to match the patient's clinical findings with varying eligibility criteria associated with multiple trials for which the patient might be eligible. The authors developed a point-of-use portable decision support tool (DS-TRIEL) to automate this matching process. The support tool consists of a hand-held computer with a programmable relational database. A two-level hierarchic decision [...]
Author(s): Breitfeld, P P, Weisburd, M, Overhage, J M, Sledge, G, Tierney, W M
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1999.0060466