Declarative and procedural approaches for modelling clinical guidelines: Addressing flexibility issues

Nataliya Mulyar, Maja Pesic, Wil M.P. Van Der Aalst, Mor Peleg

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Abstract

Recent analysis of clinical Computer-Interpretable Guideline (CIG) modelling languages from the perspective of the control-flow patterns has revealed limited capabilities of these languages to provide flexibility for encoding and executing clinical guidelines. The concept of flexibility is of major importance in the medical-care domain since no guarantee can be given on predicting the state of patients at the point of care. In this paper, we illustrate how the flexibility of CIG modelling languages can be improved by describing clinical guidelines using a declarative approach. We propose a CIGDec language for modelling and enacting clinical guidelines.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBusiness Process Management Workshops - BPM 2007 International Workshops BPI, BPD, CBP, ProHealth, RefMod, semantics4ws, Revised Selected Papers
Pages335-346
Number of pages12
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Event5th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2007 - Brisbane, Australia
Duration: 24 Sep 200724 Sep 2007

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4928 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference5th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2007
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityBrisbane
Period24/09/0724/09/07

Keywords

  • Clinical guidelines
  • Computer-interpretable guidelines
  • Declarative model specification
  • Flexibility
  • Modelling languages
  • Temporal logic

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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