Visual assessment of the similarity between a patient and trial population

Amos Cahan; James J Cimino

doi:10.4338/ACI-2015-12-RA-0178

Applied Clinical Informatics, Table of Contents

Appl Clin Inform 2016; 07(02): 477-488
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2015-12-RA-0178

Research Article

Schattauer GmbH

Visual assessment of the similarity between a patient and trial population

Is This Clinical Trial Applicable to My Patient?

Authors

Amos Cahan

¹IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY

²National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD; Informatics Institute
James J Cimino

³University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

⁴National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD

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Keywords

Data representation - clinical decision support systems - patient similarity - visual scale

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