GENERATING AND MANAGING CLINICAL STUDIES USING A KNOWLEDGE BASE

摘要

A computer system generates and manages clinical studies. A first collection of clinical documents is analyzed to extract clinical study goals and corresponding clinical study design components. A second collection of documents is analyzed to extract value sets indicating a mapping between clinical concepts and data elements of clinical information. The extracted clinical study design information and value sets are stored in a hierarchical structure within a repository that relates the clinical study goals, design components, concepts, and the data elements. A new clinical study is generated for a desired clinical study goal based on pattern recognition applied to the extracted clinical study design information and value sets in the repository using the repository. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and program product for generating and managing clinical studies in substantially the same manner described above.