Title
Verification of Medical Guidelines using Task Execution with Background Knowledge
Abstract
The use of a medical guideline can be seen as the execution of computational tasks, sequentially or in parallel, in the face of patient data. It has been shown that many of such guidelines can be represented as a 'network of tasks', i.e., as a number of steps that have a specific function or goal. To investigate the quality of such guidelines we propose a formalization of criteria for good practice medicine a guideline should comply to. We use this theory in conjunction with medical background knowledge to verify the quality of a guideline dealing with diabetes mellitus type 2 using the interactive theorem prover KIV. Verification using task execution and background knowledge is a novel approach to quality checking of medical guidelines.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2006
The Journal of Experimental Biology
novel approach,task execution,computational task,interactive theorem prover,good practice medicine,diabetes mellitus type,quality checking,medical background knowledge,medical guideline,medical guidelines
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
141
0922-6389
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-58603-642-4
0
0.34
References 
Authors
5
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Arjen Hommersom112119.62
Perry Groot217517.36
Peter Lucas3446.08
Michael Balser422215.30
Jonathan Schmitt5483.79