title: Semantic clinical guideline documents.
abstract: Decision-support systems based on clinical practice guidelines can support physicians and other healthcare personnel in the process of following best practice consistently. A knowledge-based approach to represent guidelines makes it possible to encode computer-interpretable guidelines in a formal manner,perform consistency checks, and use the guidelines directly in decision-support systems.Decision-support authors and guideline users require guidelines in human-readable formats in addition to computer-interpretable ones (e.g., for guideline review and quality assurance). We propose a new document-oriented information architecture that combines knowledge-representation models with electronic and paper documents. The approach integrates decision-support modes with standard document formats to create a combined clinical-guideline model that supports on-line viewing, printing, and decision support.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden .
authors.forename: Henrik
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Eriksson
authors.forename: Samson W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Tu
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Musen
mesh_terms: D003658:Decision Making, Computer-Assisted; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus; D006801:Humans; D051188:Knowledge Bases; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011381:Programming Languages; D012660:Semantics; D014584:User-Computer Interface