title: Enabling guidelines for computer-based decision support--process and tools.
abstract: Many guideline only implicitly or vaguely define the process of health care delivery. However, an explicit model of the medical tasks comprising this process is needed before active decision support at the patient encounter can take place. We propose to use a structured, but semi-formal representation as intermediate step in the process of enacting a guideline. This allows for the application independent representation of the content of a guideline enabled for decision support. The process and the tools of the methodology have been applied to enable guidelines from the field of Diabetes mellitus.
authors.affiliation: GSF--National Research Center for Environment and Health, MEDIS--Institute for Medical Informatics and Health Services Research, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany. moser@gsf.de
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Moser
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Heller
authors.forename: F A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Gries
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Engelbrecht
mesh_terms: D003658:Decision Making, Computer-Assisted; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D003928:Diabetic Nephropathies / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D003929:Diabetic Neuropathies / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012985:Software Design