Checking the quality of clinical guidelines using automated reasoning tools

  • Authors:
  • Arjen Hommersom;Peter j. f. Lucas;Patrick Van bommel

  • Affiliations:
  • Section on model-based system development, institute for computing and information sciences, radboud university nijmegen, po box 9010, 6500 gl nijmegen, the netherlands (e-mail: arjenh@cs.ru.nl, p ...;Section on model-based system development, institute for computing and information sciences, radboud university nijmegen, po box 9010, 6500 gl nijmegen, the netherlands (e-mail: arjenh@cs.ru.nl, p ...;Section on model-based system development, institute for computing and information sciences, radboud university nijmegen, po box 9010, 6500 gl nijmegen, the netherlands (e-mail: arjenh@cs.ru.nl, p ...

  • Venue:
  • Theory and Practice of Logic Programming
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Requirements about the quality of clinical guidelines can be represented by schemata borrowed from the theory of abductive diagnosis, using temporal logic to model the time-oriented aspects expressed in a guideline. Previously, we have shown that these requirements can be verified using interactive theorem proving techniques. In this paper, we investigate how this approach can be mapped to the facilities of a resolution-based theorem prover, otter and a complementary program that searches for finite models of first-order statements, mace-2. It is shown that the reasoning required for checking the quality of a guideline can be mapped to such a fully automated theorem-proving facilities. The medical quality of an actual guideline concerning diabetes mellitus 2 is investigated in this way.