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Towards a Conceptual Model for Enhancing Reasoning About Clinical Guidelines

A Case-Study on Comorbidity

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Knowledge Representation for Health Care (KR4HC 2014)

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Abstract

Computer-Interpretable Guidelines (CIGs) are representations of Clinical Guidelines (CGs) in computer interpretable languages. CIGs have been pointed as an alternative to deal with the various limitations of paper based CGs to support healthcare activities. Although the improvements offered by existing CIG languages, the complexity of the medical domain requires advanced features in order to reuse, share, update, combine or personalize their contents. We propose a conceptual model for representing the content of CGs as a result from an iterative approach that take into account the content of real CGs, CIGs languages and foundational ontologies in order to enhance the reasoning capabilities required to address CIG use-cases. In particular, we apply our approach to the comorbidity use-case and illustrate the model with a realistic case study (Duodenal Ulcer and Transient Ischemic Attack) and compare the results against an existing approach.

Veruska Zamborlini — Funded by CNPq (Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) within the program Science without Borders.

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    http://www.aiha.com/en/WhatWeDo/PracticeGuidelines_CPGPI.asp

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    http://glinda-project.stanford.edu/guidelineinteractionontology.html

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    Veruska Zamborlini, Annette ten Teije & Frank van Harmelen

  2. Public Research Center Henri Tudor, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

    Veruska Zamborlini, Marcos da Silveira & Cédric Pruski

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Zamborlini, V., da Silveira, M., Pruski, C., ten Teije, A., van Harmelen, F. (2014). Towards a Conceptual Model for Enhancing Reasoning About Clinical Guidelines. In: Miksch, S., Riaño, D., ten Teije, A. (eds) Knowledge Representation for Health Care. KR4HC 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8903. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13281-5_3

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