Adopting model checking techniques for clinical guidelines verification

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-19

  Bottrighi, Alessio ^a   Giordano, Laura ^a   Molino, Gianpaolo ^b   Montani, Stefania ^a   Terenziani, Paolo ^a   Torchio, Mauro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^b MOLINETTE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clinical guidelines; Model checking; Verification

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES; AUTOMATIC VERIFICATION; CLINICAL GUIDELINE; GL MANAGEMENT; HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS; IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS; ISCHEMIC STROKES; LOOSELY COUPLING; MEDICAL AREAS; MEDICAL TREATMENT; MODEL CHECKER; MODEL-CHECKING TECHNIQUES; MODEL-CHECKING VERIFICATION; USABILITY REQUIREMENTS; VERIFICATION TASK;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

MODEL CHECKING;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DATA BASE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 73449093469     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2009.09.003     Document Type: Article

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