Computer-Based Medical Guidelines and Protocols: A Primer and Current Trends

by Teije, Annette ten

• ISBN13: 9781586038731
• ISBN10: 1586038737
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-01
• Publisher: IOS PRESS INC

Summary

This book brings together results from different branches of computer science (in particular, artificial intelligence), medical informatics and medicine to examine cutting edge approaches to computer-based guideline modeling, verification and interpretation. Different methods have been developed to support the development, deployment, maintenance and use of evidence-based guidelines, using techniques from artificial intelligence, software engineering, medical informatics and formal methods. Such methods employ different representation formalisms and computational techniques.As the guideline-related research spans a wide range of research communities, a comprehensive integration of the results of these communities was lacking. It is the intention of this book to fill this gap. It is the first book of its kind that partially has the nature of a textbook. The book consists of two parts. The first part consists of nine chapters which together offer a comprehensive overview of the most important medical and computer-science aspects of clinical guidelines and protocols. The second part of the book consists of chapters that are extended versions of selected papers that were originally submitted to the ECAI-2006 workshop AI Techniques in Health Care: Evidence-based Guidelines and Protocols. These chapters will provide the reader detailed information about actual research in the area by leading researchers.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
A Primer
Guideline Development	p. 3
Computer-Interpretable Guideline Formalisms	p. 22
From Guidelines to Careflows: Modelling and Supporting Complex Clinical Processes	p. 44
Formal Methods for Verification of Clinical Practice Guidelines	p. 63
The Temporal Aspects of Clinical Guidelines	p. 81
Planning: Supporting and Optimizing Clinical Guidelines Execution	p. 101
Adaptation of Clinical Practice Guidelines	p. 121
Visualization Methods to Support Guideline-Based Care Management	p. 140
Compliance with Clinical Practice Guidelines	p. 160
Current Trends
Compliance Checking of Cancer-Screening CareFlows: An Approach Based on Computational Logic	p. 183
Medical Guidelines for the Patient: Introducing the Life Assistance Protocols	p. 193
DeGeL: A Clinical-Guidelines Library and Automated Guideline-Support Tools	p. 203
A Constraint-Based Approach to Medical Guidelines and Protocols	p. 213
TSNet - A Distributed Architecture for Time Series Analysis	p. 223
Clinical Guidelines and Care Pathways: A Case Study Applying PROforma Decision Support Technology to the Breast Cancer Care Pathway	p. 233
Lessons Learned from Adapting a Generic Narrative Diabetic-Foot Guideline to an Institutional Decision-Support System	p. 243
Verification of Medical Guidelines in KIV	p. 253
Improving the Execution of Clinical Guidelines and Temporal Data Abstraction in High-Frequency Domains	p. 263
Applying Artificial Intelligence to Clinical Guidelines: The GLARE Approach	p. 273
Glossary	p. 283
Author Index	p. 289
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