Modeling the Arden Syntax for medical decisions in XML

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 77, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 650-656

  Kim, Sukil ^a   Haug, Peter J ^b   Rocha, Roberto A ^b   Choi, Inyoung ^a  

^a The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arden Syntax; Clinical decision support systems; Compiler; XML; XSL style sheet; XSLT

Indexed keywords

HEALTH; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LINGUISTICS; MODEL CHECKING; QUERY LANGUAGES; SYNTACTICS; XML;

ARDEN SYNTAX; BEFORE AND AFTER; CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; COMPILER; ERROR PATTERNS; EXTENSIBLE MARKUP LANGUAGE; MEDICAL DECISIONS; NEW MODEL; PUBLIC DOMAINS; STYLE SHEETS; VALIDATION PROCESSES; XML DOCUMENTS; XML-SCHEMA; XSL STYLE SHEET; XSLT;

MARKUP LANGUAGES;

ARDEN SYNTAX; ARTICLE; DOCUMENTATION; ERROR; HEALTH CARE; MARKUP LANGUAGE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 48949102269     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2008.01.001     Document Type: Article

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