Call for Participation: TREC 2016 Clinical Decision Support Track
Kirk Roberts
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TREC 2016 Clinical Decision Support Track
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In making clinical decisions, physicians often seek out information about how to best care for their patients. Information relevant to a physician can be related to a variety of clinical tasks such as determining a patient's most likely diagnosis given a list of symptoms, deciding on the most effective treatment plan for a patient having a known condition, and determining if a particular test is indicated for a given situation. In some cases, physicians can find the information they seek in published biomedical literature. However, given the volume of the existing literature and the rapid pace at which new research is published, locating the most relevant and timely information for a particular clinical need can be a daunting and time-consuming task.
In order to make biomedical information more accessible and to meet the requirements for the meaningful use of electronic health records, a goal of clinical decision support systems is to anticipate the needs of physicians by linking medical records with information relevant for patient care. The goal of the clinical decision support track is to simulate the requirements of such systems and encourage the creation of tools and resources necessary for their implementation.
--- Task Description ---
* Topics/Queries: EHR admission notes
* Data Collection: Open Access snapshot of PubMed Central (PMC) *updated for 2016*
* Website: http://www.trec-cds.org
* Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/d/forum/trec-cds
Similar to the 2014 and 2015 tracks, the focus of the 2016 Clinical Decision Support Track will be the retrieval of biomedical articles relevant for answering generic clinical questions about medical records.
We will be using EHR admission notes describing the patient’s chief complaint and history of present illness.
Participants of the track will be challenged with retrieving full-text biomedical articles that answer questions related to several types of clinical information needs. Each topic will consist of an EHR note and one of three generic clinical question types, such as "What is the patient's diagnosis?" Retrieved articles will be judged relevant if they provide information of the specified type that is pertinent to the given patient. The evaluation of submissions will follow standard TREC evaluation procedures.
--- Important Dates ---
ASAP: TREC Registration: https://ir.nist.gov/trecsubmit.open/application.html
March 2016: Document collection available for download
Early May 2016: Topics available for download
Late July 2016: Results submission deadline
October 2016: Relevance judgements and individual evaluation scores released
Late October 2016: Initial system description papers due
November 15-18 2016: TREC 2016 conference at NIST
--- Organizing Committee ---
Kirk Roberts (UTHealth)
William Hersh (OHSU)
Dina Demner-Fushman (NLM)
Ellen Voorhees (NIST)
--- Contact ---
Kirk Roberts: kirkr...@gmail.com
Ellen Voorhees: ellen.v...@nist.gov