title: Mark-up based analysis of narrative guidelines with the Stepper tool.
abstract: The Stepper tool was developed to assist a knowledge engineer in developing a computable version of narrative guidelines. The system is document-centric: it formalises the initial text in multiple user-definable steps corresponding to interactive XML transformations. In this paper, we report on experience obtained by applying the tool on a narrative guideline document addressing unstable angina pectoris. Possible role of the tool and associated methodology in developing a guideline-based application is also discussed.
authors.affiliation: European Centre for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology-Cardio, University of Economics, Prague. ruzicka@vse.cz
authors.forename: Marek
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Růzicka
authors.forename: Vojtech
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Svátek
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011381:Programming Languages; D014584:User-Computer Interface