Clinical Decision Support with Guidelines and Bayesian Networks
Oliver Nee, Andreas Hei · InTech eBooks · 2010
In this chapter the state of the art of decision support in medicine along with clinical guidelines has been described. Especially in fields of medicine where workflows are highly standardized and do not depend in a great extend on intra-individual variations, clinical guidelines are well accepted. In these fields the clinician can benefit from computer assistance. The implementation of a CDSS requires on one hand the formalization of the clinical guidelines and mechanisms for reasoning. This chapter is focused on GLIF for the formalization and a rule-based approach for the execution of the guideline. As a potential application this approach has been used for the monitoring of a patient at home during his/her rehabilitation training. The patient benefit from the CDSS because a clinician cannot