title: The use of the Arden Syntax for MLMs in HIOS+, a decision support system for general practitioners in The Netherlands.
abstract: This paper covers query creation and evaluation in HIOS+, a General Practitioner Decision Support System. The International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC), free-text International Classification of Health Problems in Primary Care (ICHPPC)-II-Defined criteria, and the Arden Syntax for medical logic modules (MLMs) are building blocks in query creation with the free-text formalizer (FF) module. The backward-reasoning formal interpreter (FI) module evaluates queries by checking them against medical patient data. It can advise or warn users on the suitability of a registered diagnostic ICPC code in a patient's case. In all, 101 queries were created in MLM form on a wide range of diseases. The MLMs and FI were evaluated in a field and a laboratory test.
authors.affiliation: University of Limburg, Department of Medical Informatics, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: F M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Dupuits
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D002965:Classification; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D005103:Expert Systems; D005194:Family Practice; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D009426:Netherlands; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D011320:Primary Health Care; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration