AIMC Topic: Practice Guidelines as Topic

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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.

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.

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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...