Paper Info
Title
Supporting physicians in taking decisions in clinical guidelines: the GLARE "what if" facility.
Abstract
GLARE (GuideLine Acquisition, Representation and Execution) is a domain-independent system for the acquisition, representation and execution of clinical guidelines. GLARE is unique in its approach to supporting the decision-making process of users/physicians faced with various alternatives in the guidelines. In many cases, the best alternative cannot be determined on the basis of "local information" alone (i.e., by considering just the selection criteria associated with the decision at hand), but must also take into account information stemming from relevant alternative pathways. Exploitation of "global information" available in the various pathways is made possible by GLARE through the "what if" facility, a form of hypothetical reasoning which allows users to gather relevant decision parameters (e.g., costs, resources, times) from selected parts of the guideline in a semi-automatic fashion. In particular, the extremely complex task of coping with temporal information involves the extension and adaptation of various techniques developed by the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2002
AMIA 2002 SYMPOSIUM, PROCEEDINGS: BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS: ONE DISCIPLINE
physicians,expert systems
Field
DocType
ISSN
Computer science,Global information,Coping (psychology),Expert system,Knowledge management,Guideline
Conference
1531-605X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
18
1.16
11
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Terenziani, P.1695.17
Stefania Montani2353.06
Alessio Bottrighi3352.04
Mauro Torchio4352.04
Gianpaolo Molino5352.04