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Clinical guidelines are aimed at standardizing patient care and improving its quality and cost effectiveness. Guidelines represented in a computer-interpretable (CI) format can be used to provide automatic decision support applied to individual patients during the clinical encounter. The process of creating computer-interpretable guidelines (CIG) removes ambiguities contained in paper-based guidelines, thus making the guideline more comprehensible. For these reasons, CIGs may have a larger impact on clinician behavior than paper-based guidelines. Since much effort goes into creating guidelines in a CI format, it is desirable that different institutions and software systems share them. In a guideline representation workshop hosted by the InterMed Collaboratory in March 2000, the need for a standard representation format for sharable CIGs was recognized. As a first step towards achieving this goal, we proposed a set of functional requirements for sharable CIGs. The requirements encompass the entire life cycle of a CIG: development, implementation, use and maintenance. In this paper we discuss requirements that are important during the development stage of a CIG. We have abstracted the requirements into two groups: expressiveness - the ability to express the knowledge content of different types of guidelines - and comprehensibility - the ability to manage complexity, facilitate coherence, and visualize a guideline model to aid in human comprehension. The Guideline Interchange Format version 3 (GLIF3) is a language for structured representation of CIGs. It is under development to facilitate sharing CIGs among different institutions and systems. We illustrate how GLIF3 meets the specified development requirements. |
Year | Venue | Keywords |
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2001 | MEDINFO 2001: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH WORLD CONGRESS ON MEDICAL INFORMATICS, PTS 1 AND 2 | clinical practice guideline, knowledge representation |
Field | DocType | Volume |
Functional requirement,Knowledge representation and reasoning,Collaboratory,Computer science,Decision support system,Knowledge management,Software system,Guideline,Comprehension,Expressivity | Conference | 84 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
Pt 1 | 0926-9630 | 5 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.96 | 10 | 6 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mor Peleg | 1 | 1135 | 110.07 |
| Aziz A. Boxwala | 2 | 585 | 72.72 |
| Robert Greenes | 3 | 644 | 106.18 |
| Edward H. Shortliffe | 4 | 1457 | 454.94 |
| Vimla L. Patel | 5 | 1985 | 268.27 |
| Vimla L. Patel | 6 | 1985 | 268.27 |