title: Semantic query generation from eligibility criteria in clinical trials.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Chintan O
authors.initials: CO
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.forename: James J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Cimino
mesh_terms: D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D004608:Eligibility Determination / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D018579:Patient Selection; D012660:Semantics; D017432:Unified Medical Language System