Telematics for clinical guidelines: a conceptual modelling approach.
PRESTIGE is a project for applying telematics to assist the dissemination and application of clinical practice guidelines and protocols. Previous publications have described PRESTIGE's technical approach, including the use of a generic model for representing the knowledge content of clinical guidelines. This approach offers the possibility of 'plug-and-play' electronic distribution of clinical guidelines produced by multiple authoring bodies for use on multiple healthcare clinical management software platforms. A recent joint workshop held with the Section on Medical Informatics, Stanford University School of Medicine compared the European consensus approach developed in PRESTIGE with a parallel series of projects for computer-assisted protocol-based healthcare undertaken at Stanford and other American centres over the past, which confirmed the convergence and complementarity of our approaches, and holds out prospects of world-wide standardization in healthcare protocol knowledge representation. This paper summarises PRESTIGE conceptual model set which is the design of the project's approach.
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Royal Brompton Hospital, London.
Herbert
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Johnson
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Nicklin
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Pitty
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Reeves
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D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D002985:Clinical Protocols; D003658:Decision Making, Computer-Assisted; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012985:Software Design