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Multi-agent system for recruiting patients for clinical trials

Authors:

Samhar Mahmoud,

Tjeerd Vanstaa,

Brendan DelaneyAuthors Info & Claims

AAMAS '14: Proceedings of the 2014 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems

Pages 981 - 988

Published: 05 May 2014 Publication History

Abstract

Clinical trials are widely adopted for the purpose of evaluating medical research. In particular, they are used to study various aspects of medical science, as well as being a vital stage in the deployment of new drug treatments. However, a review of the UK Medical Research Council found that only 31% of trials actually recruited to their planned target, with 30--40% of costs arising during the recruitment phase alone. This is mainly due to the challenges that are involved in designing the clinical trial, and recruiting the required number of patients for this trial within a certain time-frame. Both tasks create significant overhead as they are slow and costly. In response, we propose a multi-agent architecture that helps ease the process of recruiting patients for clinical trials. This paper presents a results from a deployment of the architecture, showing that it succeeds in recruiting a sufficient number of patients for multiple clinical trials. The results also show that recruitment is better for some trials than for others, due to the differing trial requirements and recruitment processes.

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Wimmer HYoon VSugumaran V(2016)A multi-agent system to support evidence based medicine and clinical decision making via data sharing and data privacyDecision Support Systems10.1016/j.dss.2016.05.00888:C(51-66)Online publication date: 1-Aug-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.dss.2016.05.008
Ibrahim ZFernández de la Cruz LStringaris AGoodman RLuck MDobson RWeiss GYolum PBordini RElkind E(2015)A Multi-Agent Platform for Automating the Collection of Patient-Provided Clinical FeedbackProceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems10.5555/2772879.2773259(831-839)Online publication date: 4-May-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2772879.2773259
Taweel AMahmoud STawil A(2014)Privacy-Aware Agent-Oriented Architecture for Distributed eHealth SystemsProceedings of the Confederated International Workshops on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2014 Workshops - Volume 884210.1007/978-3-662-45550-0_42(418-427)Online publication date: 27-Oct-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-662-45550-0_42

Index Terms

Multi-agent system for recruiting patients for clinical trials
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Distributed artificial intelligence
      1. Multi-agent systems

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AAMAS '14: Proceedings of the 2014 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems

May 2014

1774 pages

ISBN:9781450327381

General Chairs:
Ana Bazzan
UFRGS, Brazil
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Michael Huhns
University of South Carolina, USA
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Alessio Lomuscio
Imperial College London, UK
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Paul Scerri
Carnegie Mellon University, USA

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Wimmer HYoon VSugumaran V(2016)A multi-agent system to support evidence based medicine and clinical decision making via data sharing and data privacyDecision Support Systems10.1016/j.dss.2016.05.00888:C(51-66)Online publication date: 1-Aug-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.dss.2016.05.008
Ibrahim ZFernández de la Cruz LStringaris AGoodman RLuck MDobson RWeiss GYolum PBordini RElkind E(2015)A Multi-Agent Platform for Automating the Collection of Patient-Provided Clinical FeedbackProceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems10.5555/2772879.2773259(831-839)Online publication date: 4-May-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2772879.2773259
Taweel AMahmoud STawil A(2014)Privacy-Aware Agent-Oriented Architecture for Distributed eHealth SystemsProceedings of the Confederated International Workshops on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2014 Workshops - Volume 884210.1007/978-3-662-45550-0_42(418-427)Online publication date: 27-Oct-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-662-45550-0_42

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