A concern-oreinted and ontology-based approach to constructing informational facets of clinical trials

The complexity of the clinical trial (CT) process involves high investments in the research of a new drug or procedure. To reduce costs and enhance the research quality more and more activities in the CT process need an IT support. To develop efficient automated solution first a conceptual modeling step should be carried out. To model the CT research partitioning criteria of the CT conceptual domain are required.