Representing clinical guidelines in UMl: a comparative study.
Clinical guidelines can be represented using models, such as GLIF, specifically designed for healthcare guidelines. This paper demonstrates that they can also be modelled using a mainstream business modelling language such as UML. The paper presents a guideline in GLIF and as UML activity diagrams, and then presents a mapping of GLIF primitives to UML. The potential benefits of using a mainstream modelling language are outlined. These include availability of advanced modelling tools, transfer between modelling tools, and automation via business workflow technology.
Department of Computer Science, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Lucy
L
Hederman
Daniel
D
Smutek
Vincent
V
Wade
Thomas
T
Knape
D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D017432:Unified Medical Language System