Towards computerizing intensive care sedation guidelines: Design of a rule-based architecture for automated execution of clinical guidelines

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Ongenae, Femke ^a   De Backere, Femke ^a   Steurbaut, Kristof ^a   Colpaert, Kirsten ^b   Kerckhove, Wannes ^a   Decruyenaere, Johan ^b   De Turck, Filip ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL ERROR; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SEMANTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MEDICAL ERRORS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77249122157     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-10-3     Document Type: Article

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