Does case-based reasoning using electronic health records efficiently identify eligible patients for clinical trials?
This relevance-based method can potentially be used to identify eligible patients for clinical trials by processing patient EHR data alone without parsing free-text eligibility criteria, and shows promise of efficient "case-based reasoning" modeled only on minimal trial participants.
Epithelial MMP-2 correlates with advanced tumor stage and grade, but is not an independent predictor of survival.