Frequency analysis of medical concepts in clinical trials and their coverage in MeSH and SNOMED-CT

• Published in: Methods of information in medicine Vol. 54; no. 1; p. 83
• Main Authors: Varghese, J, Dugas, M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Germany 2015
• Subjects: Clinical Coding; Clinical Trials as Topic - classification; Electronic Health Records; Medical Subject Headings; Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine; CUI; data items; UMLS; Eligibility criteria; MeSH; ODM; clinical trials; SNOMED-CT

Eligibility criteria (EC) of clinical trials play a key role in selecting appropriate study candidates and the validity of the outcome of a clinical trial. However, in most cases EC are provided in unstandardised ways such as free text, which raises significant challenges for machine-readability. To...