Representing the Glasgow Coma Scale in IT: Proper Specification is Required for Assessment Scales.
In healthcare a huge amount of assessment scales and score systems are in use to abbreviate and summarize the results of clinical observations to interpret a patient's condition in a valid and reliable manner. It is challenging to convey the information in a semantic interoperable form to other systems. A bad approach would be to invent individual models for each of them. Within this paper we would like to demonstrate that a generic model is sufficient by demonstrating the realization with the Glasgow Coma Scale.
Results4Care B.V., Amersfoort, The Netherlands.
William
W
Goossen
Agfa Healthcare GmbH, Bonn, Germany.
Frank
F
Oemig
D003128:Coma / Q000145:classification*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D023261:Glasgow Outcome Scale / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D063189:Symptom Assessment / Q000379:methods*