Computer-Based Support for Clinical Guidelines and Protocols : Proceedings of the Symposium on Computerized Guidelines and Protocols (CGP 2004) / edited by Katharina Kaiser, Silvia Miksch, and Samson W. Tu
Cover; Title page; Preface; Conference Organization; Contents; Communicating the Logic of a Treatment Plan Formulated in Asbru to Domain Experts; Decision Support and Knowledge Management in Oncology Using Hierarchical Classification; Modelling Clinical Goals: A Corpus of Examples and a Tentative Ontology; Standardized Terminology for Clinical Trial Protocols Based on Top-Level Ontological Categories; TimeWrap -- A Method for Automatic Transformation of Structured Guideline Components into Formal Process-Representations
Non-Compliance with Guidelines: Motivations and Consequences in a Case StudyAdvanced Temporal Data Abstraction for Guideline Execution; Protocure: Supporting the Development of Medical Protocols Through Formal Methods; Towards a Flexible Integration of Clinical Guideline Systems with Medical Ontologies and Medical Information Systems; Adaptive Guideline-based Treatment Workflows with AdaptFlow; A Generic Interface to XML Documents for Guidance Information; Transforming Written Guidelines into Electronic Formats -- International Perspectives
A Multiple-ontology Customizable Search Interface for Retrieval of Clinical GuidelinesMark-up Based Analysis of Narrative Guidelines with the Stepper Tool; A Description Logics Approach to CGPs; Reminder-based or On-demand Decision Support Systems: A Preliminary Study in Primary Care with the Management of Hypertension; The Digital Electronic Guideline Library (DeGeL): A Hybrid Framework for Representation and Use of Clinical Guidelines; Using a Guideline-centered Approach for the Design of a Clinical Decision Support System to Promote Smoking Cessation
Analysis of Guideline Compliance -- A Data Mining ApproachThe GLARE Approach to Clinical Guidelines: Main Features; The SAGE Guideline Modeling: Motivation and Methodology; Tracing the Formalization Steps of Textual Guidelines; Translating Arden MLMs into GLIF Guidelines -- A Case Study of Hyperkalemia Patient Screening; Author Index
Summary
In recent years, guidelines and protocols have gained support as the vehicles for promoting best practices in clinical medicine. They offer the possibilities of reducing unwarranted practice variations, of containing cost while maintaining quality of care, and of defining standards of care for quality assurance purposes
