Text-to-algorithm conversion to facilitate comparison of competing clinical guidelines

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 304-310

  Barak, Nurit ^b   Margolis, Carmi Z ^a   Gottlieb, Lawrence K ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Clinical algorithms; Clinical guidelines; Health services evaluation; Immunization; Measles; Medical decision making; Semantic analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; HEALTH SERVICE; MEASLES VACCINATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMANTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DECISION TREES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE; INFANT; MEASLES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031750110     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X9801800308     Document Type: Article

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