title: Integration of textual guideline documents with formal guideline knowledge bases.
abstract: Numerous approaches have been proposed to integrate the text of guideline documents with guideline-based care systems. Current approaches range from serving marked up guideline text documents to generating advisories using complex guideline knowledge bases. These approaches have integration problems mainly because they tend to rigidly link the knowledge base with text. We are developing a bridge approach that uses an information retrieval technology. The new approach facilitates a versatile decision-support system by using flexible links between the formal structures of the knowledge base and the natural language style of the guideline text.
authors.affiliation: Stanford Medical Informatics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Shankar
authors.forename: S W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Tu
authors.forename: S B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Martins
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Fagan
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Goldstein
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Musen
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003658:Decision Making, Computer-Assisted; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D013782:Textbooks as Topic