Semantic query generation from eligibility criteria in clinical trials.
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Towards the goal of automated eligibility determination for clinical trials from electronic health records, we propose a method to formulate Semantic Web based queries using the free-text eligibility criteria on clinicaltrials.gov.
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- AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
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تاریخ انتشار 2007