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dc.contributor.authorHurley, Katrina F.
dc.contributor.authorAbidi, Syed Sibte Raza
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-12T19:09:42Z
dc.date.available2014-01-12T19:09:42Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.identifier.citationHurley, K. F., & Abidi, S. S. R. (June 20, 2007). Ontology Engineering to Model Clinical Pathways: Towards the Computerization and Execution of Clinical Pathways. in Twentieth IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'07) 2007 Conference Proceedings. 536-541.en_US
dc.identifier.isbn0-7695-2905-4
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10222/42780
dc.description.abstractClinical pathways translate evidence-based recommendations into locally practicable, process-specific algorithms that reduce practice variations and optimize quality of care. Our objective was to abstract practice-oriented knowledge from a cohort of real clinical pathways and represent this knowledge as a clinical pathway ontology. We employed a four step methodology: (1) knowledge source identification and classification of clinical pathways according to variations in setting, stage of care, patient type, outcome and specialty; (2) iterative knowledge abstraction using grounded theory; (3) ontology engineering as adapted from the Model-based Incremental Knowledge Engineering approach; and, (4) ontology evaluation through encoding a sample of real clinical pathways. We present our Clinical Pathway Ontology that offers a detailed ontological model describing the structure and function of clinical pathways. Our ontology can potentially integrate with a healthcare semantic web, and ontologies for clinical practice guidelines, patients and institutions to form the foundational knowledge for generating patient-specific CarePlans.en_US
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dc.publisherIEEEen_US
dc.relation.ispartofTwentieth IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'07) 2007 Conference Proceedings
dc.titleOntology Engineering to Model Clinical Pathways: Towards the Computerization and Execution of Clinical Pathwaysen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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