Part I.A Primer -- 1. Guideline development -- 2. Computer-interpretable guideline formalisms -- 3. Form guidelines and careflows: modeling and supporting complex clinical processes -- 4. Formal methods for verification of clinical practice guidelines -- 5. The Temporal aspects of clinical guidelines -- 6. Planning: supporting and optimizing clinical guidelines optimization -- 7. Adaptation of clinical practice guidelines -- 8. Visualization methods to support guideline-based care management -- 9. Compliance with clinical practice guidelines -- -- Part II. Current Trends -- Compliance checking of cancer-screening careflows: an approach based on computational logic -- Medical guidelines for the patient: introducing the life assistance protocols -- DeGeL: a clinical-guidelines library and automated guideline-support tools -- A Constraint-based approach to medical guidelines and protocols -- TSNet: a distributed architecture for time series analysis -- Clinical guidelines and care pathways: a case study applying PROforma decision support technology to the breast cancer care pathway -- Lessons learned from adapting a generic narrative diabetic-foot guideline to an institutional decision-support system -- Verification of medical guidelines of in KIV -- Improving the execution of clinical guidelines and temporal data abstraction in high-frequency domains -- Appling artificial intelligence to clinical guidelines: the GLARE approach
Summary
The book consists of two parts. The first part consists of 9 chapters which together offer a comprehensive overview of the most important medical and computer-science aspects of clinical guidelines and protocols. The second part of the book consists of chapters that are extended versions of selected papers that were originally submitted to the ECAI-2006 workshop 'AI Techniques in Health Care: Evidence-based Guidelines and Protocols.'
