Exploiting decision theory concepts within clinical guideline systems: Toward a general approach
✍ Scribed by Stefania Montani; Paolo Terenziani
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 187 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0884-8173
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✦ Synopsis
Supporting therapy selection is a fundamental task for a system for computerized management of clinical guidelines ~GL!. To this end, decision theory concepts could provide significant advances. In this article, we propose a systematic analysis of the main GL representation primitives and of how they could be related to decision theory concepts. The knowledge representation contribution we provide can be seen as a basis for implementing a decision support tool within any of the systems described in the literature: As a matter of fact, at a sufficiently abstract level, the GL primitives we treat are shared by all of the systems. Such a tool could be adopted when executing a GL on a single patient ~in clinical practice! and for simulation purposes. In particular, a decision theory tool based on this analysis is being implemented in the GLARE system.