On the design of a management platform for antibiotic guidelines in the Intensive Care Unit

Proceedings - 5th International Conference on Software Engineering Advances, ICSEA 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 406-411

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

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Antibiotic dosage; Clinical guidelines; Guideline management system; Java EE; UML

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT; CLINICAL GUIDELINE; CLINICAL WORKFLOW; COMMUNICATION PROBLEMS; GUIDELINE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; JAVA EE; MANAGEMENT PLATFORMS; MULTI-TIER; SERVICE ORIENTED; SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; UML;

COMMUNICATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ANTIBIOTICS;

EID: 78649843444     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSEA.2010.69     Document Type: Conference Paper

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