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CNL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Writing Clinical Practice Guidelines in Controlled Natural Language
Abstract. Clinicians could benefit from decision support systems incorporating the knowledge contained in clinical practice guidelines. However, the unstructured form of these guid...
Richard N. Shiffman, George Michel, Michael Krauth...
MIE
2008
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Formalization of Clinical Practice Guidelines
: Clinical practice guidelines are textual recommendations based on the consensus of medical experts with the aim to solve diagnostic and therapeutic problems. For more advanced us...
David Buchtela, Jan Peleska, Arnost Veselý,...
MIE
2008
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Syntactical Negation Detection in Clinical Practice Guidelines
In clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) the medical information is stored in a narrative way. A large part of this information occurs in a negated form. The detection of negation in...
Stefan Gindl, Katharina Kaiser, Silvia Miksch
SEMWEB
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
An Ontology-based Bayesian Network Approach for Representing Uncertainty in Clinical Practice Guidelines
Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) play an important role in improving the quality of care and patient outcomes. Although several machine-readable representations of practice guid...
Hai-Tao Zheng, Bo-Yeong Kang, Hong-Gee Kim
AIME
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Causal Modeling Framework for Generating Clinical Practice Guidelines from Data
Abstract. The practice of medicine is becoming increasingly evidencebased and clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are necessary for advancing evidence-based medicine (EBM). We hypo...
Subramani Mani, Constantin F. Aliferis
AIME
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Semantic Web Framework for Knowledge-Centric Clinical Decision Support Systems
Lately, there have been considerable efforts to computerize Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) so that they can be executed via Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) at the poin...
Sajjad Hussain, Samina Raza Abidi, Syed Sibte Raza...