title: Graphical representation of quality indicators based on medical service ontology.
abstract: For recent years, it has grown importance to evaluate medical service qualities of medical staffs and/or hospitals by using quality indicators. This paper introduces a representation system QI-RS of quality indicators. By using QI-RS, one can define quality indicators that satisfy understandability and formality, where "understandability" means that one can understand the calculation formula of a quality indicator easily and correctly, while "formality" means that the formula can be calculated to obtain the values of the indicator based on databases in a coherent manner.
authors.affiliation: School of Knowledge Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, 923-1292 Japan.
authors.forename: Osamu
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Takaki
authors.forename: Izumi
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Takeuti
authors.forename: Koichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: Noriaki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Izumi
authors.forename: Koichiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Murata
authors.forename: Mitsuru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ikeda
authors.forename: Koiti
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hasida
keywords: Graph representation; Medical service; Ontology; Quality assessment; Quality indicator