Information extraction of eligibility criteria for trial enrolment support.

Rapid and efficient identification of patients eligible for clinical trials is on the critical path to the effective treatment of patients in a radiation oncology clinical setting. However, the Trial Physician Assistants (TPAs) that perform this work must read through many unstructured documents that have been received from regional hospitals and scanned in. The TPA must be familiar with a large set of clinical terms and abbreviations, as well as the inclusion and exclusion criteria of all active trials making the identification process a time-consuming and tedious task.