A Test Collection for Matching Patients to Clinical Trials
Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon · 2016
We present a test collection to study the use of search engines for matching eligible patients (the query) to clinical trials (the document). Clinical trials are experiments conducted in the development of new medical treatments, drugs or devices. Recruiting candidates for a trial is often a time-consuming and resource intensive effort, and imposes delays or even the cancellation of trials.