title: Encoding a depression screening guideline using GLIF.
abstract: Computer-interpretable guidelines (CIGs) have been reported to increase clinicians' usage of guidelines and to improve patient outcomes. The Guideline Interchange Format (GLIF) represents a guideline as a flowchart of clinical decision and action steps. We encoded a depression screening guideline using GLIF to transform it into a CIG. After identifying all guideline steps from the text format guideline, a flowchart was drawn using the encoded steps in GLIF. The flowchart was validated by an experienced psychiatric nurse clinician.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA. jc2293@columbia.edu
authors.forename: Jeeyae
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: Josephine
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sapp
authors.forename: Suzanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bakken
mesh_terms: D003658:Decision Making, Computer-Assisted; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000592:standards*; D009518:New York