The temporal aspects of clinical guidelines

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 139, Issue , 2008, Pages 81-100

  Terenziani, Paolo ^a   German, Efrat ^b   Shahar, Yuval ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Qualitative and quantitative temporal constraints; Temporal abstraction; Temporal constraint propagation; Temporal databases; Temporal patterns; Temporal representation languages; Timestamped data

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING;

TEMPORAL ABSTRACTION; TEMPORAL CONSTRAINTS; TEMPORAL DATABASE; TEMPORAL PATTERN; TEMPORAL REPRESENTATIONS; TIME-STAMPED DATA;

DIAGNOSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARD; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 56149110320     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-58603-873-1-81     Document Type: Conference Paper

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