Paper Info
Title
Rule-Based combination of comorbid treatments for chronic diseases applied to hypertension, diabetes mellitus and heart failure
Abstract
The treatment of patients with several chronic diseases (comorbidities) has become a frequent actuation of health-care professionals in their daily practice. As different treatments are needed for each disease, there is a risk of undesired drug interactions that must be detected and solved using evidence-based medical knowledge. In this paper we have extracted part of this knowledge for the comorbidities of hypertension, diabetes mellitus and heart failure, and we have represented it by means of combination rules. A rule execution system has been developed which is able to combine treatments of different diseases into a unique comorbid treatment avoiding undesired drug interactions. The system has been checked by health-care professionals of the SAGESSA Health-care group in 20 medical cases.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/978-3-642-36438-9_2
ProHealth/KR4HC
Keywords
Field
DocType
chronic disease,undesired drug interaction,rule execution system,diabetes mellitus,health-care professional,rule-based combination,sagessa health-care group,medical case,different treatment,different disease,heart failure,unique comorbid treatment,evidence-based medical knowledge
Diabetes mellitus,Insulin glargine,Heart failure,Disease,Rule-based system,Medical knowledge,Intensive care medicine,Insulin detemir,Drug,Medicine
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
16
0.95
3
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Joan Albert López-Vallverdú1886.34
David Riaño2856.15
Antoni Collado3332.86