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Planning: Supporting and optimizing clinical guidelines execution

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Abstract

A crucial feature of computerized clinical guidelines (CGs) lies in the fact that they may be used not only as conventional documents (as if they were just free text) describing general procedures that users have to follow. In fact, thanks to a description of their actions and control flow in some semiformal representation language, CGs can also take advantage of Computer Science methods and Information Technology infrastructures and techniques, to become executable documents, in the sense that they may support clinical decision making and clinical procedures execution. In order to reach this goal, some advanced planning techniques, originally developed within the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community, may be (at least partially) resorted too, after a proper adaptation to the specific CG needs has been carried out.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer-based Medical Guidelines and Protocols
Subtitle of host publicationA Primer and Current Trends
PublisherIOS Press
Pages101-120
Number of pages20
ISBN (Print)9781586038731
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008

Publication series

NameStudies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume139
ISSN (Print)0926-9630
ISSN (Electronic)1879-8365

Keywords

  • Adaptation
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Decision support
  • Indeterminacy
  • Optimized CG execution
  • Planning
  • Resources
  • Time
  • Uncertainty

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