title: Representing nursing guideline with unified modeling language to facilitate development of a computer system: a case study.
abstract: To provide best recommendations at the point of care, guidelines have been implemented in computer systems. As a prerequisite, guidelines are translated into a computer-interpretable guideline format. Since there are no specific tools to translate nursing guidelines, only a few nursing guidelines are translated and implemented in computer systems. Unified modeling language (UML) is a software writing language and is known to well and accurately represent end-users' perspective, due to the expressive characteristics of the UML. In order to facilitate the development of computer systems for nurses' use, the UML was used to translate a paper-based nursing guideline, and its ease of use and the usefulness were tested through a case study of a genetic counseling guideline. The UML was found to be a useful tool to nurse informaticians and a sufficient tool to model a guideline in a computer program.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
authors.forename: Jeeyae
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Jeungok E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Choi
mesh_terms: D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000592:standards*; D051188:Knowledge Bases; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards*; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D012984:Software