Clinical guidelines and care pathways: A case study applying PROforma decision support technology to the breast cancer care pathway

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 139, Issue , 2008, Pages 233-242

  Patkar, Vivek ^a   Fox, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Engineering Science ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical practice guideline; Computerised decision support; Work flow

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DECISION MAKING; DISEASES; FORMAL LANGUAGES; LABORATORIES; MODELING LANGUAGES; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

CLINICAL GUIDELINE; CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES; CLINICAL SETTINGS; CLINICAL WORKFLOW; DECISION SUPPORT APPLICATIONS; DECISION SUPPORTS; OUTCOME MEASURES; WORK-FLOWS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; UNITED KINGDOM;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 56149103615     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-58603-873-1-233     Document Type: Conference Paper

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