From guidelines to careflows: Modelling and supporting complex clinical processes

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 139, Issue , 2008, Pages 44-62

  Fox, John ^a,b   Black, Elizabeth ^a   Chronakis, Ioannis ^a,b   Dunlop, Robert ^c   Patkar, Vivek ^b   South, Matthew ^a   Thomson, Richard ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Infermed Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^d OpenClinical ^*

Author keywords

Clinical decision making; Process modelling; Task network languages; Workflow languages

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; MODELING LANGUAGES; PETRI NETS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

BUSINESS PROCESS MODELLING; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DATA INTERPRETATION; PROCESS MODELLING; RESEARCH CHALLENGES; TASK NETWORKS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; WORKFLOW LANGUAGE;

CLINICAL RESEARCH;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARD; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DECISION MAKING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 56149113815     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-58603-873-1-44     Document Type: Conference Paper

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