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Development of a Knowledge Based System for an Intensive Care Environment Using Ontologies

Development of a Knowledge Based System for an Intensive Care Environment Using Ontologies

Ana Torres Morgade, Marcos Martínez-Romero, José M. Vázquez-Naya, Miguel Pereira Loureiro, Ángel González Albo, Javier Pereira Loureiro
Copyright: © 2011 |Volume: 4 |Issue: 1 |Pages: 13
ISSN: 1938-7857|EISSN: 1938-7865|EISBN13: 9781466600034|DOI: 10.4018/jitr.2011010102
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Morgade, Ana Torres, et al. "Development of a Knowledge Based System for an Intensive Care Environment Using Ontologies." JITR vol.4, no.1 2011: pp.21-33. http://doi.org/10.4018/jitr.2011010102

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Morgade, A. T., Martínez-Romero, M., Vázquez-Naya, J. M., Loureiro, M. P., Albo, Á. G., & Loureiro, J. P. (2011). Development of a Knowledge Based System for an Intensive Care Environment Using Ontologies. Journal of Information Technology Research (JITR), 4(1), 21-33. http://doi.org/10.4018/jitr.2011010102

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Morgade, Ana Torres, et al. "Development of a Knowledge Based System for an Intensive Care Environment Using Ontologies," Journal of Information Technology Research (JITR) 4, no.1: 21-33. http://doi.org/10.4018/jitr.2011010102

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Abstract

In intensive care units (ICUs), clinicians must monitor patients’ vital signs and make decisions regarding the drugs they administer. The patients’ lives depend on the quality of these decisions but experts can make mistakes. Recent technological strategies and tools can decrease these errors. In this paper, the authors describe the development of a knowledge based system (KBS) to provide support to clinicians with respect to the drugs they administer to patients with cardiopathies in ICUs to stabilize them. To develop the system, knowledge from medical experts at the Meixoeiro Hospital in Vigo (Spain) has been extracted and formally represented as an ontology. As a result, a validated KBS has been obtained, which can be helpful to experts in ICUs and whose underlying knowledge can be easily shared and reused.

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