title: ECRL: an eligibility criteria representation language based on the UMLS Semantic Network.
abstract: We propose a formal representation language to represent, share and reuse eligibility criteria in clinical research protocols towards the goal of automated eligibility identification. The language is an extension over the UMLS Semantic Network and can be transformed into other computable representations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Chintan O
authors.initials: CO
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.forename: Chunhua
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Weng
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D009518:New York; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000379:methods*; D012660:Semantics; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D017432:Unified Medical Language System