Items for "Clinical workflow"

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