Ric Johnston

Mailing Strategies and Recruitment into an Intervention Trial of the Exercise Effect on Breast Cancer Biomarkers 1 (2009)

Shelley S. Tworoger, Yutaka Yasui, Cornelia M. Ulrich, Heather Nakamura, Kristin Lacroix, Ric Johnston, ...

Recruitment into public health intervention trials can be costly and time-consuming. We examined two components of recruitment for an exercise trial: (a) a randomized pilot study of mailing...

Automated Extraction of Free-Text from Pathology Reports

Currie*, Anne-Marie, Fricke, Travis, Gawne, Agnes, Johnston, Ric, Liu, John, Stein, Barbara

Manually populating a cancer registry from free-text pathology reports is labor intensive and costly. This poster describes a method of automated text extraction to improve the efficiency of this...