The guideline interchange format: A model for representing guidelines

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 357-372

  Ohno Machado, Lucila ^a   Gennari, John H ^b   Murphy, Shawn N ^c   Jain, Nilesh L ^d   Tu, Samson W ^b   Oliver, Diane E ^b   Pattison Gordon, Edward ^a,e   Greenes, Robert A ^a   Shortliffe, Edward H ^b   Barnett, G Octo ^c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^e BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; UNIVERSITY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 0031869530     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050357     Document Type: Article

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