title: Applying artificial intelligence to clinical guidelines: the GLARE approach.
abstract: We present GLARE, a domain-independent system for acquiring, representing and executing clinical guidelines (GL). GLARE is characterized by the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques in the definition and implementation of the system. First of all, a high-level and user-friendly knowledge representation language has been designed. Second, a user-friendly acquisition tool, which provides expert physicians with various forms of help, has been implemented. Third, a tool for executing GL on a specific patient has been made available. At all the levels above, advanced AI techniques have been exploited, in order to enhance flexibility and user-friendliness and to provide decision support. Specifically, this chapter focuses on the methods we have developed in order to cope with (i) automatic resource-based adaptation of GL, (ii) representation and reasoning about temporal constraints in GL, (iii) decision making support, and (iv) model-based verification. We stress that, although we have devised such techniques within the GLARE project, they are mostly system-independent, so that they might be applied to other guideline management systems.
authors.affiliation: Univ. Piemonte Orientale, Via Bellini 25, Alessandria, Italy. terenz@unipmn.it
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Terenziani
authors.forename: Stefania
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Montani
authors.forename: Alessio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bottrighi
authors.forename: Gianpaolo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Molino
authors.forename: Mauro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Torchio
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D002985:Clinical Protocols; D003658:Decision Making, Computer-Assisted; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic