Computer-based medical guidelines and protocols
Subtitle: a primer and current trends
By: edited by Annette ten Teije, Silvia Miksch and Peter Lucas.
Contributors: Teije, Annette ten.; Miksch, Silvia .; Lucas, Peter, 1955-
Series: Studies in health technology and informatics -- v. 139; Studies in health technology and informatics -- v. 139.
Publisher: IOS Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781586038731
Subjects: Decision making -- Data processing -- Congresses; Decision Making, Computer-Assisted -- Congresses; Decision Support Systems, Clinical -- Congresses; Medical Informatics -- Congresses; Practice Guidelines as Topic -- Congresses; Medicine -- Data processing -- Congresses; Medicine -- Decision making -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Description: The book consists of two parts. The first part consists of 9 chapters which together offer a comprehensive overview of the most important medical and computer-science aspects of clinical guidelines and protocols. The second part of the book consists of chapters that are extended versions of selected papers that were originally submitted to the ECAI-2006 workshop 'AI Techniques in Health Care: Evidence-based Guidelines and Protocols.'
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. A Primer; title: 1. Guideline development; title: 2. Computer-interpretable guideline formalisms; title: 3. Form guidelines and careflows: modeling and supporting complex clinical processes; title: 4. Formal methods for verification of clinical practice guidelines; title: 5. The Temporal aspects of clinical guidelines; title: 6. Planning: supporting and optimizing clinical guidelines optimization; title: 7. Adaptation of clinical practice guidelines; title: 8. Visualization methods to support guideline-based care management; title: 9. Compliance with clinical practice guidelines; title: Part II. Current Trends; title: Compliance checking of cancer-screening careflows: an approach based on computational logic; title: Medical guidelines for the patient: introducing the life assistance protocols; title: DeGeL: a clinical-guidelines library and automated guideline-support tools; title: A Constraint-based approach to medical guidelines and protocols; title: TSNet: a distributed architecture for time series analysis; title: Clinical guidelines and care pathways: a case study applying PROforma decision support technology to the breast cancer care pathway; title: Lessons learned from adapting a generic narrative diabetic-foot guideline to an institutional decision-support system; title: Verification of medical guidelines of in KIV; title: Improving the execution of clinical guidelines and temporal data abstraction in high-frequency domains; title: Appling artificial intelligence to clinical guidelines: the GLARE approach