Credit: Cincinnati Children's
Yizhao Ni, PhD, a researcher in the Division of Biomedical Informatics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, stands in the institution’s research data warehouse. Ni and his colleagues are mining electronic health record data and blending human and artificial intelligence to find better ways to recruit patients for clinical trials. They report research results on April 27 in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association identifying key factors that cause people to decline participation in clinical trials.