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System for selecting clinical trials

  • US 20020077853A1
  • Filed: 09/14/2001
  • Published: 06/20/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2000
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method for determining a search set of clinical trials, the method comprising the steps of:

  • determining a subject area of interest;

    searching a clinical trial database for specific instances of the clinical trials in the subject area of interest;

    generating a list of said clinical trials by extracting, from the database, a plurality of records in the subject area of interest;

    extracting exclusionary criteria in each record from the initial list;

    generating a list of redundant instances of the exclusionary criteria;

    generating a set of normalized criteria by normalizing the criteria in the list of redundant instances;

    generating a reduced set of said normalized criteria by reducing the number of members in the normalized list by selecting a predetermined maximum number of exclusionary criteria in the normalized list having the most redundancy; and

    generating a normalized search set of the clinical trials in the reduced list, using the reduced set of normalized criteria.

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