Protocure: supporting the development of medical protocols through formal methods.
Medical guidelines and protocols describe the optimal care for a specific group of patients and therefore, when properly applied, improve the quality of patient care. During the last decade, a large number of medical guidelines and protocols have been published. However, the work done on developing and disseminating them far outweighs the efforts on guaranteeing their quality. Indeed, anomalies like ambiguity and incompleteness are frequent in medical guidelines and protocols. An approach grounded on a formal representation, can answer these needs, as we have demonstrated in the Protocure project'. The Protocure II project will aim at integrating formal methods in the life cycle of guidelines.
Balser
Michael
M
Universitaet Augsburg, Germany.
Coltell
Oscar
O
van Croonenborg
Joyce
J
Duelli
Christoph
C
van Harmelen
Frank
F
Jovell
Albert
A
Lucas
Peter
P
Marcos
Mar
M
Miksch
Silvia
S
Reif
Wolfgang
W
Rosenbrand
Kitty
K
Seyfang
Andreas
A
ten Teije
Annette
A
D002985:Clinical Protocols; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D010934:Planning Techniques; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software