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Toward a Framework for Computer-Mediated Collaborative Design in Medical Informatics

The development and implementation of enabling tools and methods that provide ready access to knowledge and information are among the central goals of medical informatics...

Keywords: Computer-Mediated Collaboration, Clinical Guidelines, Distributed Cognition, Communication Technologies, Internet-based Collaboration

09/1999 | Methods of Information in Medicine, Schattauer

Clinical Guidelines as Plans An Ontological Theory

Objective: Clinical guidelines are special types of plans realized by collective agents. We provide an ontological theory of such plans that is designed to support the construction of a framework in which guideline-based information systems can be employed in the management of workflow in health care organizations. Method: The framework we propose allows us to represent, in formal terms, how clinical guidelines are realized through the actions of individuals or ganized into teams...

Keywords: Clinical workflow, Ontology, Clinical Guidelines, reference partitions, guideline conformance

01/2006 | Methods of Information in Medicine, Schattauer

Use of Statistical Techniques to Synthesize Explicit Criteria Developed by an Expert Panel

OBJECTIVES: Methodology based on expert panels has been commonly used to evaluate the appropriateness of interventions...

Keywords: Appropriateness, statistical models, classification error, Clinical Guidelines

01/2006 | Methods of Information in Medicine, Schattauer

Clinical Governance and evidence-based laboratory medicine

Background: Clinical Governance is described as “a framework through which the NHS organisations are accountable to continue to improve the quality of the service and safeguarding high standards of care by creating an environment in which excellence in clinical care would flourish”; it is aimed to ensure continuous improvement in the overall standard of clinical care, ensuring that clinical decisions are based on the most up-to-date evidence in terms of effectiveness.

Methods: If Clinical Governance is a framework through which NHS organisations are accountable to continuously improve the quality of their services and safeguarding high standards of care, Clinical Effectiveness is a vital part of Clinical Governance...

Keywords: clinical audit, Clinical Governance, Clinical Guidelines, evidence-based laboratory medicine, quality of evidence