title: Medical guidelines for the patient: introducing the life assistance protocols.
abstract: This paper introduces our preliminary results in the modeling of Life Assistance Protocols, a new vision of medical guidelines and protocols through the lenses of p-Health. In this context the patient's role in the process is emphasized, the actions to be performed less defined and not only clinical situations considered, but also healthier lifestyle promotion processes accounted for, where the person's preferences and motivations play a key role. We propose a complete framework, balancing on classical clinical guideline models and covering both the theoretical and the practical aspects of the problem, describing it from conceptualization to the execution environment.
authors.affiliation: Institute ITACA, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain. dadotor@itaca.upv.es
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Domínguez
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fernández
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Meneu
authors.forename: Juan Bautista
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Mocholí
authors.forename: Riccardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Serafin
mesh_terms: D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D040242:Risk Reduction Behavior; D012648:Self Care