Transcript Patient-population-problem, Exposure

Patient-population-problem,
Exposure-intervention, Comparison, Outcome,
Duration, & Results
Presence of text or text patterns
• PECODR elements are present in the majority of abstracts with the exception
of Duration (75%)
Patterns of PECODR
• P & E = Medical or Drug Terms (thesaurus)
The other element related extracts contain some patterns
1. Possible standard textual patterns (lexico-semantics)
may help automatically determine PECODR elements
2. If this is possible we may be able to develop a
prototype of new technology for automatic
information retrieval (aspectual Search Engine)
3. To index the clinical information according to needs'
for the users (eg family practitioners)