TY - GEN
T1 - Representation of clinical practice guidelines for computer-based implementations
AU - Wang, Dongwen
AU - Peleg, Mor
AU - Tu, Samson W.
AU - Shortliffe, Edward H.
AU - Greenes, Robert A.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - Representation of clinical practice guidelines is a critical issue for computer-based guideline development, implementation and evaluation. We studied eight types of computer-based guideline representation models. Typical primitives for these models include decisions, actions, patient states and execution states. Temporal constraints and nesting are important aspects of guideline structure representation. Integration of guidelines with electronic medical records can be facilitated by the introduction of formal models of patient data. Patient states and execution states are closely related to one another. Data collection, decision, patient state and intervention are four basic steps in a guideline's logic flow.
AB - Representation of clinical practice guidelines is a critical issue for computer-based guideline development, implementation and evaluation. We studied eight types of computer-based guideline representation models. Typical primitives for these models include decisions, actions, patient states and execution states. Temporal constraints and nesting are important aspects of guideline structure representation. Integration of guidelines with electronic medical records can be facilitated by the introduction of formal models of patient data. Patient states and execution states are closely related to one another. Data collection, decision, patient state and intervention are four basic steps in a guideline's logic flow.
KW - Clinical Practice Guidelines
KW - Knowledge Representation
KW - Theoretical Models
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U2 - 10.3233/978-1-60750-928-8-285
DO - 10.3233/978-1-60750-928-8-285
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77949526992
SN - 1586031945
SN - 9781586031947
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 285
EP - 289
BT - MEDINFO 2001 - Proceedings of the 10th World Congress on Medical Informatics
PB - IOS Press
T2 - 10th World Congress on Medical Informatics, MEDINFO 2001
Y2 - 2 September 2005 through 5 September 2005
ER -