title: An ontological approach to support clinical governance: the case of breast cancer guidelines.
abstract: Guidelines are an essential tool to ensure an optimal clinical governance in oncology. The Province of Trento started a research project whose aim is to develop a system for supporting and controlling the best evidence-based oncological care process based on guidelines. The significant role of ontologies for the semantic interoperability of such a system is pointed out.
authors.affiliation: CNR-ISTC, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Domenico M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Pisanelli
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Eccher
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Forti
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008495:Medical Oncology / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000592:standards*; D012660:Semantics; D009626:Terminology as Topic