A practical method for transforming free-text eligibility criteria into computable criteria.

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Published in J Biomed Inform on September 17, 2010

Authors

Samson W Tu1, Mor Peleg, Simona Carini, Michael Bobak, Jessica Ross, Daniel Rubin, Ida Sim

Author Affiliations

1: Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. swt@stanford.edu

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