title: DeGeL: a clinical-guidelines library and automated guideline-support tools.
abstract: Using machine-interpretable clinical guidelines to support evidence-based medicine promotes the quality of medical care. In this chapter, we present the Digital Electronic Guidelines Library (DeGeL), a comprehensive framework, including a Web-based guideline repository and a suite of tools, to support the use of automated guidelines for medical care, research, and quality assessment. Recently, we have developed a new version (DeGeL.NET) of the digital library and of its different tools. We intend to focus in our exposition on DeGeL's major tools, in particular for guideline specification in a Web-based and stand alone fashion (Uruz and Gesher), tools for search and retrieval (Vaidurya and DeGeLookFor) and for run time application (Spock); and to explain how these tools are combined within the typical lifecycle of a clinical guideline.
authors.affiliation: Medical Informatics Research Center, Department of Information Systems Engineering, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel. hatsek@bgu.ac.il
authors.forename: Avner
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hatsek
authors.forename: Ohad
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Young
authors.forename: Erez
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Shalom
authors.forename: Yuval
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shahar
mesh_terms: D002985:Clinical Protocols; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D006801:Humans; D046609:Libraries, Digital; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D014584:User-Computer Interface