TY - GEN
T1 - Modeling clinical guidelines through petri nets
AU - Beccuti, Marco
AU - Bottrighi, Alessio
AU - Franceschinis, Giuliana
AU - Montani, Stefania
AU - Terenziani, Paolo
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Clinical guidelines (GLs) play an important role to standardize and organize clinical processes according to evidence-based medicine. Several computer-based GL representation languages have been defined, usually focusing on expressiveness and/or on user-friendliness. In many cases, the interpretation of some constructs in such languages is quite unclear. Only recently researchers have started to provide a formal semantics for some of such languages, thus providing an unambiguous specification for implementers, and a formal ground in which different approaches can be compared, and verification techniques can be applied. Petri Nets are a natural candidate formalism to cope with GL semantics, since they are explicitly geared towards the representation of processes, and are paired with powerful verification mechanisms. We show how Petri Nets can cope with the semantics of GLs in a clear way, taking the system GLARE formalism as a case study.
AB - Clinical guidelines (GLs) play an important role to standardize and organize clinical processes according to evidence-based medicine. Several computer-based GL representation languages have been defined, usually focusing on expressiveness and/or on user-friendliness. In many cases, the interpretation of some constructs in such languages is quite unclear. Only recently researchers have started to provide a formal semantics for some of such languages, thus providing an unambiguous specification for implementers, and a formal ground in which different approaches can be compared, and verification techniques can be applied. Petri Nets are a natural candidate formalism to cope with GL semantics, since they are explicitly geared towards the representation of processes, and are paired with powerful verification mechanisms. We show how Petri Nets can cope with the semantics of GLs in a clear way, taking the system GLARE formalism as a case study.
KW - Clinical guidelines
KW - Petri net
KW - Well-formed net
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70350235062&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-02976-9_8
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-02976-9_8
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70350235062
SN - 3642029752
SN - 9783642029752
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 61
EP - 70
BT - Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - 12th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2009, Proceedings
T2 - 12th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2009
Y2 - 18 July 2009 through 22 July 2009
ER -