Automated clinical trial eligibility prescreening: increasing the efficiency of patient identification for clinical trials in the emergency department.
(1) To develop an automated eligibility screening (ES) approach for clinical trials in an urban tertiary care pediatric emergency department (ED); (2) to assess the effectiveness of natural language processing (NLP), information extraction (IE), and machine learning (ML) techniques on real-world clinical data and trials.
Author(s): Ni, Yizhao, Kennebeck, Stephanie, Dexheimer, Judith W, McAneney, Constance M, Tang, Huaxiu, Lingren, Todd, Li, Qi, Zhai, Haijun, Solti, Imre
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2014-002887