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Methods Inf Med 1997; 36(03): 172-178
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1636829
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Knowledge Representation for Computer-Aided Planning of Controlled Clinical Trials: the PATriCIa Project

U. Haag
1   Institute for Medical Biometry and Informatics, University of Heidelberg, Germany
› Author AffiliationsI wish to thank my colleagues from the Institute for Medical Biometry and Informatics at Heidelberg University for fruitful discussions during the development of this work, especially Carsten Heuer for proof reading the final version.
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17 February 2018 (online)

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The main thesis of the PATriCIa project is that a knowledge-based system can provide efficient and reliable support for biometricians as well as physicians involved in planning of controlled clinical trials, resulting in a higher quality of medical research. Structure and contents of study protocols are analyzed, and an object-oriented method for formally representing biometric knowledge is proposed. A study protocol can be generated from this formal representation. The programming language Prolog is used to realize the system based on a blackboard architecture. It is concluded that the knowledge representation method developed in the PATriCIa project is well suited for the purpose of generating study protocols for controlled clinical trials.

Keywords

Controlled Clinical Trials - Study Protocols - Knowledge-based System
 

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