TY - GEN
T1 - Formalising medical quality indicators to improve guidelines
AU - Van Gendt, Marjolein
AU - Ten Teije, Annette
AU - Serban, Radu
AU - Van Harmelen, Frank
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Medical guidelines can significantly improve quality of medical care and reduce costs. But how do we get sound and well-structured guidelines? This paper investigates the use of quality indicators that are formulated by medical institutions to evaluate medical care. The main research questions are (i) whether it is possible to formalise those indicators in a specific knowledge representation language for medical guidelines, and (ii) whether it is possible to verify whether such guidelines do indeed satisfy these indicators. In a case study on two real-life guidelines (Diabetes and Jaundice) we have studied 35 indicators, that were developped independently from these guidelines. Of these 25 (71%!) suggested anomalies in one of the guidelines in our case study.
AB - Medical guidelines can significantly improve quality of medical care and reduce costs. But how do we get sound and well-structured guidelines? This paper investigates the use of quality indicators that are formulated by medical institutions to evaluate medical care. The main research questions are (i) whether it is possible to formalise those indicators in a specific knowledge representation language for medical guidelines, and (ii) whether it is possible to verify whether such guidelines do indeed satisfy these indicators. In a case study on two real-life guidelines (Diabetes and Jaundice) we have studied 35 indicators, that were developped independently from these guidelines. Of these 25 (71%!) suggested anomalies in one of the guidelines in our case study.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:26944451270
SN - 3540278311
SN - 9783540278313
VL - 3581 LNAI
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 201
EP - 210
BT - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
T2 - 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2005
Y2 - 23 July 2005 through 27 July 2005
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