title: Graph based model to support nurses' work.
abstract: Health care is a knowledge-based community that critically depends on knowledge management activities in order to ensure quality. Nurses are primary stakeholders and need to ensure that their information and knowledge needs are being met in such ways that enable them, to improve the quality and efficiency of health care service delivery for all subjects of health care. This paper describes a system to help nurses to create nursing care plan. It supports focusing nurse's attention on those resources/solutions that are likely to be most relevant to their particular situation/problem in nursing domain. System is based on multi-relational property graph representing a flexible modeling construct. Graph allows modeling a nursing domain (ontology) and the indices that partition domain into an efficient, searchable space where the solution to a problem is seen as abstractly defined traversals through its vertices and edges.
authors.affiliation: SRC Infonet d.o.o., Kranj, Slovenia.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Benedik
authors.affiliation: University of Maribor, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Kranj, Slovenia.
authors.forename: Uroš
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Rajkovič
authors.affiliation: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
authors.forename: Olga
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Sušteršič
authors.affiliation: University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
authors.forename: Vesna
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Prijatelj
authors.affiliation: University of Maribor, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Kranj, Slovenia.
authors.forename: Vladislav
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Rajkovič
mesh_terms: D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009736:Nursing Process / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010347:Patient Care Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017524:Slovenia