Verification of Clinical Guidelines by Model Checking

Authors:
Beatriz Pérez;Ivan Porres
Affiliations:
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Venue:
CBMS '08 Proceedings of the 2008 21st IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems
Year:
2008

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Abstract

Clinical guidelines systematically assist practitioners with providing appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances. However, a significant number of guidelines are lacking in quality. In this paper, we use the UML modeling language to capture guidelines and model checking techniques for their verification. We have established a classification of possible properties to be verified in a guideline and we present an automated approach based on a translation from UML to PROMELA, the input language of the SPIN model checker. Our approach is illustrated with a guideline based on a guideline published by the National Guideline Clearing House (NGC).