Representation of clinical practice guideline components in OWL

• Author(s): Oliveira, Tiago José Martins ; Novais, Paulo ; Neves, José
• Date: 2013
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/26584
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Clinical practice guidelines; Ontology; OWL; Decision support systems
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

Serie : Advances in intelligent systems and computing, ISSN 2194-5357, vol. 221 The main purpose to attain with the advent of clinical decision sup-port systems is either to improve the quality of patient care or to reduce the oc-currence of clinical malpractice, such as medical errors and defensive medicine. It is therefore necessary a machine-readable support to integrate the recommen-dations of Clinical Practice Guidelines in such systems. CompGuide is a Com-puter-Interpretable Guideline model developed under Ontology Web Language that offers support for administrative information concerning a guideline, work-flow procedures, and the definition of clinical and temporal constraints. When compared to other models of the same type, besides having a comprehensive task network model, it introduces new temporal representations and the possi-bility of reusing pre-existing knowledge and integrating it in a guideline.