A Hybrid Approach to Clinical Guideline and to Basic Medical Knowledge Conformance

  • Authors:
  • Alessio Bottrighi;Federico Chesani;Paola Mello;Gianpaolo Molino;Marco Montali;Stefania Montani;Sergio Storari;Paolo Terenziani;Mauro Torchio

  • Affiliations:
  • DI, Univ. del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy 15100;DEIS, Univ. di Bologna, Bologna, Italy 40136;DEIS, Univ. di Bologna, Bologna, Italy 40136;Az. Ospedaliera S. Giovanni Battista, Torino, Italy;DEIS, Univ. di Bologna, Bologna, Italy 40136;DI, Univ. del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy 15100;DI, Univ. di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy 44136;DI, Univ. del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy 15100;Az. Ospedaliera S. Giovanni Battista, Torino, Italy

  • Venue:
  • AIME '09 Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Several computer-based approaches to Clinical Guidelines have been developed in the last two decades. However, only recently the community has started to cope with the fact that Clinical Guidelines are just a part of the medical knowledge that physicians have to take into account when treating patients. The procedural knowledge in the guidelines have to be complemented by additional declarative medical knowledge. In this paper, we analyse such an interaction, by studying the conformance problem, defined as evaluating the adherence of a set of performed clinical actions w.r.t. the behaviour recommended by the guideline and by the medical knowledge.