Items for "representation"

HELEN, a Modular Framework for Representing and Implementing Clinical Practice Guidelines

OBJECTIVES: In order to implement clinical practice guidelines for the Department of Neonatology of the Heidelberg University Medical Center we developed a modular framework consisting of tools for authoring, browsing and executing encoded clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). METHODS: Based upon a comprehensive analysis of literature, we set up requirements for guideline representation systems...

Keywords: Clinical Practice Guidelines, representation, acquisition, implementation, local adaptation, execution, Decision Support