Title
Development of computerized guidelines for the management of chronic diseases allowing to position any patient within recommended therapeutic strategies.
Abstract
Chronic diseases are complex to manage. One reason comes from the difficulty to synchronize a patient's therapeutic history with the guideline-based sequence of treatments. We represent guideline knowledge as a two-level decision tree, a clinical level describing theoretical clinical situations and a therapeutic level formalizing the different steps of corresponding recommended therapeutic strategies. Guideline-based strategies are first represented as bidimensional matrices structured in lines of therapy and levels of therapeutic intention. A revised version introducing levels of therapeutic combination is then developed The therapeutic level is operationalized for any patient therapeutic history to provide the next best step of treatment. Evaluated on actual patient records, our system proved to impact physicians' decisions in 78% of the cases and led to a significant improvement of their compliance with recommendations.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2004
STUDIES IN HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATICS
decision support systems,clinical practice guidelines,knowledge,representation,therapeutic strategy,hypertension
DocType
Volume
Issue
Conference
107
Pt 1
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0926-9630
2
0.55
References 
Authors
7
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Brigitte Séroussiac120.55
Jacques Bouaudac220.55
Gilles Chatellierbc320.55
Alain Venotd420.55
Brigitte Séroussi510029.42
Jacques Bouaud611133.21
G Chatellier75911.92
Alain Venot811718.39