A methodology for modular representation of guidelines

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 107, Issue , 2004, Pages 149-153

  Scott Wright, Alicia O ^a   Fischer, Robert P ^b   Denekamp, Yaron ^b   Boxwala, Aziz A ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

clinical practice guidelines; knowledge representation; local adaptation

Indexed keywords

AXIOMATIC DESIGN; CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES; GUIDELINE INTERCHANGE FORMAT; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE; MODULAR KNOWLEDGE; MODULAR REPRESENTATIONS; QUANTITATIVE METRICS; CHANGE PROCESS; DESIGN MATRIX; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE-REPRESENTATION; MODULARS;

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION;

CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LOCAL ADAPTATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84887059501     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-949-3-149     Document Type: Article

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