title: A framework and tools for authoring, editing, documenting, sharing, searching, navigating, and executing computer-based clinical guidelines.
abstract: With the spread of managed care and integrated delivery networks, an increased emphasis has been placed on the cost-effectiveness of clinical practices. The need has been recognized to use guidelines to support education, and to integrate them into clinical practice. A specification for guideline representation that would facilitate computer-based clinical guideline sharing has been developed by the InterMed Collaboratory. Called GLIF (GuideLine Interchange Format), this specification and its proposed extensions have been the basis for our implementation of a framework and suite of integrated software tools for guideline authoring and editing, packaging in XML, Internet distribution, navigation, eligibility determination, and automatic execution.
authors.affiliation: Decision Systems Group, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. greenes@harvard.edu
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Greenes
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Boxwala
authors.forename: W N
authors.initials: WN
authors.lastname: Sloan
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ohno-Machado
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Deibel
mesh_terms: D004608:Eligibility Determination; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design