title: Formalization of clinical practice guidelines.
abstract: Clinical practice guidelines are textual recommendations based on the consensus of medical experts with the aim to solve diagnostic and therapeutic problems. For more advanced use in real medical applications it is necessary to find out mathematical models of physicians' decision-making processes. The acquisition of a formal model from text-based guidelines is a crucial point for development of decision support systems. We introduce a system for formalization and presentation of medical knowledge contained in clinical practice guidelines where knowledge formalization is based on the GLIF model.
authors.affiliation: EuroMISE Center and Center for Biomedical Informatics, Department of Medical Informatics, Institute of Computer Science AS CR, v.v.i., Pod Vodarenskou vezi 2, 182 07 Prague 8, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Buchtela
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Peleska
authors.forename: Arnost
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Veselý
authors.forename: Jana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zvárová
authors.forename: Miroslav
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zvolský
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005103:Expert Systems; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D051188:Knowledge Bases; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012985:Software Design; D018511:Systems Integration; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled