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ArticleTrends in pharmacological sciences2015

Optimizing Clinical Research Participant Selection with Informatics.

Chunhua Weng

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Article in Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  20. Criteria2Query: a natural language interface to clinical databases for cohort definition.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Chunhua WengDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, 622 W 168 Street, PH-20, Room 407, New York, NY 10032, USA. Electronic address: cw2384@columbia.edu.

Funding

Clinical and Translational Science AwardUL1TR001873 · NCATS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI REILLY, MUREDACH P · 2016 to 2025
$99.0M
OMOP information model for eMERGE phenotypingU01HG008680 · NHGRI · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Wendy K Chung, GEORGE M HRIPCSAK · 2015 to 2026
$13.3M
Bridging the Semantic Gap Between Research Eligibility Criteria and Clinical DataR01LM009886 · NLM · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI WENG, CHUNHUA · 2009 to 2020
$5.3M
Developing Flexible EHR Plug-ins to Re-Engineer Clinical Care and Research WorkflowsR01LM010815 · NLM · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI HOMMA, SHUNICHI, WENG, CHUNHUA · 2010 to 2013
$1.9M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001873NHGRI NIH HHS U01 HG008680NLM NIH HHS R01 LM009886NLM NIH HHS R01 LM010815
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clinical research participants are often not reflective of real-world patients due to overly restrictive eligibility criteria. Meanwhile, unselected participants introduce confounding factors and reduce research efficiency. Biomedical informatics, especially Big Data increasingly made available from electronic health records, offers promising aids to optimize research participant selection through data-driven transparency.

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Clinical Studies as TopicPatient SelectionBiomedical ResearchHumansMedical Informatics

Identifiers

PMID26549161
PMCPMC4686428

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