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A scalable architecture for incremental specification and maintenance of procedural and declarative clinical decision-support knowledge.
| Content Provider | Europe PMC |
|---|---|
| Author | Hatsek, Avner Shahar, Yuval Taieb-Maimon, Meirav Shalom, Erez Klimov, Denis Lunenfeld, Eitan |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | Clinical guidelines have been shown to improve the quality of medical care and to reduce its costs. However, most guidelines exist in a free-text representation and, without automation, are not sufficiently accessible to clinicians at the point of care. A prerequisite for automated guideline application is a machine-comprehensible representation of the guidelines. In this study, we designed and implemented a scalable architecture to support medical experts and knowledge engineers in specifying and maintaining the procedural and declarative aspects of clinical guideline knowledge, resulting in a machine comprehensible representation. The new framework significantly extends our previous work on the Digital electronic Guidelines Library (DeGeL) The current study designed and implemented a graphical framework for specification of declarative and procedural clinical knowledge, Gesher. We performed three different experiments to evaluate the functionality and usability of the major aspects of the new framework: Specification of procedural clinical knowledge, specification of declarative clinical knowledge, and exploration of a given clinical guideline. The subjects included clinicians and knowledge engineers (overall, 27 participants). The evaluations indicated high levels of completeness and correctness of the guideline specification process by both the clinicians and the knowledge engineers, although the best results, in the case of declarative-knowledge specification, were achieved by teams including a clinician and a knowledge engineer. The usability scores were high as well, although the clinicians’ assessment was significantly lower than the assessment of the knowledge engineers. |
| Related Links | https://europepmc.org/backend/ptpmcrender.fcgi?accid=PMC3099486&blobtype=pdf |
| Volume Number | 4 |
| DOI | 10.2174/1874431101004010255 |
| PubMed Central reference number | PMC3099486 |
| PubMed reference number | 21611137 |
| Journal | The Open Medical Informatics Journal [Open Med Inform J] |
| e-ISSN | 18744311 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Bentham Open |
| Publisher Date | 2010-12-14 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights License | This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. © Hatsek et al.; Licensee Bentham Open. |
| Subject Keyword | Medical informatics clinical guidelines decision support systems knowledge representation knowledge acquisition knowledge bases ontologies information retrieval human computer interaction artificial intelligence digital libraries service oriented architecture. |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Medicine |
