This book brings together results from different branches of computer science (in particular, artificial intelligence), medical informatics and medicine to examine cutting edge approaches to computer-based guideline modeling, verification and interpretation. Different methods have been developed to support the development, deployment, maintenance and use of evidence-based guidelines, using techniques from artificial intelligence, software engineering, medical informatics and formal methods. Such methods employ different representation formalisms and computational techniques.As the guideline-related research spans a wide range of research communities, a comprehensive integration of the results of these communities was lacking. It is the intention of this book to fill this gap. It is the first book of its kind that partially has the nature of a textbook. The book consists of two parts. The first part consists of nine chapters which together offer a comprehensive overview of the most important medical and computer-science aspects of clinical guidelines and protocols. The second part of the book consists of chapters that are extended versions of selected papers that were originally submitted to the ECAI-2006 workshop 'AI Techniques in Health Care: Evidence-based Guidelines and Protocols'. These chapters will provide the reader detailed information about actual research in the area by leading researchers.IOS Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields. Some of the areas we publish in: -Biomedicine -Oncology -Artificial intelligence -Databases and information systems -Maritime engineering -Nanotechnology -Geoengineering -All aspects of physics -E-governance -E-commerce -The knowledge economy -Urban studies -Arms control -Understanding and responding to terrorism -Medical informatics -Computer Sciences
Author(s): P. Lucas
Series: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 139
Edition: 1
Publisher: IOS Press
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 301
Cover......Page 1
Title page......Page 2
Preface......Page 6
Contents......Page 10
A Primer......Page 12
Guideline Development......Page 14
Computer-Interpretable Guideline Formalisms......Page 33
From Guidelines to Careflows: Modelling and Supporting Complex Clinical Processes......Page 55
Formal Methods for Verification of Clinical Practice Guidelines......Page 74
The Temporal Aspects of Clinical Guidelines......Page 92
Planning: Supporting and Optimizing Clinical Guidelines Execution......Page 112
Adaptation of Clinical Practice Guidelines......Page 132
Visualization Methods to Support Guideline-Based Care Management......Page 151
Compliance with Clinical Practice Guidelines......Page 171
Current Trends......Page 192
Compliance Checking of Cancer-Screening CareFlows: An Approach Based on Computational Logic......Page 194
Medical Guidelines for the Patient: Introducing the Life Assistance Protocols......Page 204
DeGeL: A Clinical-Guidelines Library and Automated Guideline-Support Tools......Page 214
A Constraint-Based Approach to Medical Guidelines and Protocols......Page 224
TSNet - A Distributed Architecture for Time Series Analysis......Page 234
Clinical Guidelines and Care Pathways: A Case Study Applying PROforma Decision Support Technology to the Breast Cancer Care Pathway......Page 244
Lessons Learned from Adapting a Generic Narrative Diabetic-Foot Guideline to an Institutional Decision-Support System......Page 254
Verification of Medical Guidelines in KIV......Page 264
Improving the Execution of Clinical Guidelines and Temporal Data Abstraction in High-Frequency Domains......Page 274
Applying Artificial Intelligence to Clinical Guidelines: The GLARE Approach......Page 284
Glossary......Page 294
Author Index......Page 300
