Author:
Fabio Grandi
Affiliation:
Università di Bologna, Italy
Keyword(s):
Clinical guidelines, Document retrieval, Temporal database, Ontologies, Personalization, Versioning, XML.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
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Databases and Datawarehousing
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Design and Development Methodologies for Healthcare IT
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Health Information Systems
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Healthcare Management Systems
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Support for Clinical Decision-Making
Abstract:
While the world wide web user is suffering from the disease caused by information overload, for which personalization is one of the treatments which works, a physician accessing web-based clinical guideline repositories is not immune from contagion. This seems a good reason to prescribe a personalization treatment also to the professional user of a computerized clinical guideline library. To this end, we apply to clinical guidelines solutions we previously developed for norm texts in the legal domain, and show how multi-version representation capabilities and personalization query facilities can be added to their management.