A Domain-Specific Modeling Language for Specification of Clinical Scores in Mobile Health

Allan Barbosa, Francisco Silva, Luciano Coutinho, Davi Santos, Ariel Teles

2019

Abstract

Clinical scores are a widely discussed topic in health as part of modern clinical practice. In general, these tools predict clinical outcomes, perform risk stratification, aid in clinical decision making, assess disease severity or assist diagnosis. However, the problem is that clinical scores data are traditionally obtained manually, which can lead to incorrect data and result. In addition, by collecting biological/health data in real time from humans, the current mobile health (mHealth) solutions that computationally solve that problem are limited because those systems are developed considering the specificities of a single clinical score. This work is part of the MDD4ClinicalScores project that addresses the productivity in developing mHealth solutions for clinical scores through the use of Model Driven Development concepts. This paper focus in describing DSML4ClinicalScore, a high-level domain-specific modeling language that uses the Ecore metamodel to describe a clinical score specification. To propose the DSML4ClinicalScore we analysed 89 clinical scores to define the artifacts of this proposed Metamodel. In the end, a practical case study using this DSML is provided to validate the DSML4ClinicalScore Metamodel, and to show how to use the proposal in a clinical situation scenario.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Barbosa A., Silva F., Coutinho L., Santos D. and Teles A. (2019). A Domain-Specific Modeling Language for Specification of Clinical Scores in Mobile Health.In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-758-375-9, pages 104-113. DOI: 10.5220/0007728101040113

in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase19,
author={Allan Barbosa and Francisco Silva and Luciano Coutinho and Davi Santos and Ariel Teles},
title={A Domain-Specific Modeling Language for Specification of Clinical Scores in Mobile Health},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2019},
pages={104-113},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007728101040113},
isbn={978-989-758-375-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - A Domain-Specific Modeling Language for Specification of Clinical Scores in Mobile Health
SN - 978-989-758-375-9
AU - Barbosa A.
AU - Silva F.
AU - Coutinho L.
AU - Santos D.
AU - Teles A.
PY - 2019
SP - 104
EP - 113
DO - 10.5220/0007728101040113