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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.

Automated Detection of Health Websites' HONcode Conformity: Can N-gram Tokenization Replace Stemming?

Studies in health technology and informatics
Authors evaluated supervised automatic classification algorithms for determination of health related web-page compliance with individual HONcode criteria of conduct using varying length character n-gram vectors to represent healthcare web page docume...

Lessons Learnt from Evaluation of Computer Interpretable Clinical Guidelines Tools and Methods: Literature Review.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Representation of clinical guidelines in a computer interpretable format is an active area of research. Various methods and tools have been proposed which have been evaluated based on different evaluation criteria. The evaluation results in the liter...

Computer-Interpretable Clinical Guidelines: A Review and Analysis of Evaluation Criteria for Authoring Methods.

Studies in health technology and informatics
There are a variety of authoring tools and methods for producing computer-interpretable clinical guideline (CIG). This work is a review of the evaluation of tools and methods currently in use to author CIGs. The aim of this paper is to present the re...

An Ontology-Based Clinical Decision Support System for the Management of Patients with Multiple Chronic Disorders.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Decision support systems, as means of disseminating clinical practice guidelines, are powerful software that may lead to an improvement of medical practices. However, they are not always efficient and may suffer from limitations among which are lack ...

META-GLARE: a shell for CIG systems.

Studies in health technology and informatics
In the last twenty years, many different approaches to deal with Computer-Interpretable clinical Guidelines (CIGs) have been developed, each one proposing its own representation formalism (mostly based on the Task-Network Model) execution engine. We ...

Personalized decision support system based on clinical practice guidelines.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Personalized medicine is a broad and rapidly advancing field of health care that is informed by each person's unique clinical, genetic, genomic, and environmental information. Health care that embraces personalized medicine is an integrated, coordina...

Lack of international uniformity in assessing color vision deficiency in professional pilots.

Aviation, space, and environmental medicine
INTRODUCTION: Color is an important characteristic of the aviation environment. Pilots must rapidly and accurately differentiate and identify colors. The medical standards published by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) require that...