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A Decision Support Visualization Tool for Infection Management Based on BMPN and DMN

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The interdisciplinary team of an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program is indispensable to preserve the antibiotic utility and avoid resistance in a hospital. One key duty of this team is the administration behaviour surveillance, which is a complex and tedious issue.

In this work we present a tool to support this supervision by visualising some essential elements of the antimicrobial therapy: patient record, guidelines and key decision actions. The tool uses standardized models of industry (BPMN, DMN) to ease its maintenance in the long term and its interopreability.

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This work was partially funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness under the WASPSS project (Ref: TIN2013-45491-R), PhD grant (Ref: BES-2014-070682) and grant for short stays (Ref: EEBB-I-16-10856); and by the European Fund for Regional Development (EFRD, FEDER).

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Cánovas-Segura, B. et al. (2017). A Decision Support Visualization Tool for Infection Management Based on BMPN and DMN. In: Valencia-García, R., Lagos-Ortiz, K., Alcaraz-Mármol, G., Del Cioppo, J., Vera-Lucio, N., Bucaram-Leverone, M. (eds) Technologies and Innovation. CITI 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 749. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67283-0_12

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