AIMC Topic: Practice Guidelines as Topic

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Characteristics of knowledge content in a curated online evidence library.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
OBJECTIVE: To describe types of recommendations represented in a curated online evidence library, report on the quality of evidence-based recommendations pertaining to diagnostic imaging exams, and assess underlying knowledge representation.

Chronic Kidney Disease: Detection and Evaluation.

American family physician
Chronic kidney disease affects 47 million people in the United States and is associated with significant health care costs, morbidity, and mortality. Because this disease can silently progress to advanced stages, early detection is critical for initi...

Semi-Automatic Mark-Up and UMLS Annotation of Clinical Guidelines.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Clinical guidelines and clinical pathways are accepted and proven instruments for quality assurance and process optimization in the healthcare domain. To derive clinical pathways from clinical guidelines, the imprecise, non-formalized abstract guidel...

Patient Centered Event Representation for the Treatment of Multifactorial Diseases: Current Progress and Challenges.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Events such as clinical interventions, adverse drug events are one of the basic semantic units in the clinical workflow and are the foundation of the pathway representation. Current research has mainly concentrated on event recognition through concep...

Oncotherapy: A System for Requesting Chemotherapy Protocols.

Studies in health technology and informatics
A clinical decision support system is able to provide oncologists with suitable treatment options at the moment of decision making regarding which chemotherapy protocol is the best to apply to a particular oncological case. The National Cancer Instit...

Developing a Standards-Based Information Model for Representing Computable Diagnostic Criteria: A Feasibility Study of the NQF Quality Data Model.

Studies in health technology and informatics
The lack of a standards-based information model has been recognized as a major barrier for representing computable diagnostic criteria. In this paper we describe our efforts in examining the feasibility of the Quality Data Model (QDM)-developed by th...

Textual Definitions in the Leukemia Domain: Methodological Guidelines for Biomedical Ontologies.

Studies in health technology and informatics
The goal of our study is to establish methodological guidelines for the formulation of definitions in biomedical ontologies thatare not so common in the field of Library & Information Science.