Increasing Patient Findability of Medical Research: Annotating Clinical Trials Using Standard Vocabularies

At Mayo, several groups are involved at the same time in different forms of knowledge representation, for example, clinical knowledge management with its focus on physician support or medical informatics with its focus on automated data and natural language processing (in addition to data governance and other data standardization efforts). According to the definition of the National Institutes of Health, "clinical trials are research studies that test how well new medical approaches work in people.