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Identifying Treatment Activities for Modelling Computer-Interpretable Clinical Practice Guidelines

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Knowledge Representation for Health-Care (KR4HC 2010)

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Clinical practice guidelines are important instruments to support clinical care. In this work we analysed how activities are formulated in these documents and we tried to represent the activities using patterns based on semantic relations. For this we used the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) and in particular its Semantic Network. Out of it we generated a collection of semantic patterns that can be used to automatically identify activities. In a study we showed that these semantic patterns can cover a large part of the control flow. Using such patterns cannot only support the modelling of computer-interpretable clinical practice guidelines, but can also improve the general comprehension which treatment procedures have to be accomplished. This can also lead to improved compliance of clinical practice guidelines.

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  1. Institute of Software Technology & Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstraße 9-11/188, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Katharina Kaiser, Andreas Seyfang & Silvia Miksch

  2. Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics, & Intelligent Systems, Medical University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 23, 1090, Vienna, Austria

    Katharina Kaiser

  3. Department of Information & Knowledge Engineering, Danube University Krems, Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30, 3500, Krems, Austria

    Silvia Miksch

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    David Riaño

  2. Department of AI, Knowledge Representation and REasoning Group, Free University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081A, 1081HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Annette ten Teije

  3. Department of Information and Knowledge Engineering, Danube University Krems, Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Str. 30, 3500, Krems, Austria

    Silvia Miksch

  4. Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Information Systems, University of Haifa, Rabin Bldg., 31905, Haifa, Israel

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Kaiser, K., Seyfang, A., Miksch, S. (2011). Identifying Treatment Activities for Modelling Computer-Interpretable Clinical Practice Guidelines. In: Riaño, D., ten Teije, A., Miksch, S., Peleg, M. (eds) Knowledge Representation for Health-Care. KR4HC 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6512. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18050-7_9

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