An ontology-based personalization of health-care knowledge to support clinical decisions for chronically ill patients

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 429-446

  Riaño, David ^a   Real, Francis ^a   López Vallverdú, Joan Albert ^a   Campana, Fabio ^b   Ercolani, Sara ^c   Mecocci, Patrizia ^c   Annicchiarico, Roberta ^d   Caltagirone, Carlo ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b ASL Roma B   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^d IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Health care personalization; Medical decision support systems; Ontologies

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ANALYSIS; CLINICAL DECISION; CLINICAL INFORMATION; COORDINATED INTERACTION; DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS; HEALTH SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MEDICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; MISSING INFORMATION; ONTOLOGY-BASED; PERSONALIZATIONS; SEMI-AUTOMATICS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COORDINATION REACTIONS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DIAGNOSIS; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CHRONIC PATIENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMORBIDITY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALIZATION; KNOWLEDGE; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD;

CHRONIC DISEASE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE;

EID: 84861847757     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2011.12.008     Document Type: Article

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