Selection of patients for clinical trials: an interactive web-based system
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Selection of patients for clinical trials: an interactive web-based system
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 medical histories. To select participants, they analyze medical records of the available patients, which has traditionally been a manual procedure. We describe an expert system that helps to select patients for clinica...
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عنوان ژورنال: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0933-3657
DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2004.01.017