Pattern-oriented software architecture: a system of patterns
Pattern-oriented software architecture: a system of patterns
The Object Constraint Language: Getting Your Models Ready for MDA
The Object Constraint Language: Getting Your Models Ready for MDA
Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual, The (2nd Edition)
Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual, The (2nd Edition)
Communications of the ACM - Two decades of the language-action perspective
On the suitability of UML 2.0 activity diagrams for business process modelling
APCCM '06 Proceedings of the 3rd Asia-Pacific conference on Conceptual modelling - Volume 53
Grand challenges in clinical decision support
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Future Generation Computer Systems
ECBS '08 Proceedings of the 15th Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems
Computers in Biology and Medicine
LSP method and its use for evaluation of Java IDEs
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
Dynamic composition of medical support services in the ICU: Platform and algorithm design details
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
On the Design of a Management Platform for Antibiotic Guidelines in the Intensive Care Unit
ICSEA '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Fifth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances
Dynamically generated models for medical decision support systems
Computers in Biology and Medicine
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As the complexity and amount of medical information keeps increasing, it is difficult to maintain the same quality of care. Therefore, clinical guidelines are used to structure best practices and care, but they also support physicians and nurses in the diagnostic and treatment process. Currently, no standardized format exists to represent these guidelines. Translating guidelines into a computer interpretable format can overcome problems in the physicians' workflow and improve clinician's uptake. An engine is proposed to automatically translate and execute clinical guidelines. These guidelines are represented as flowcharts, expressed in either (i) a computer interpretable guideline format or (ii) a UML diagram. A detailed overview of the architecture is presented and algorithms, aiming at grouping several components and distributing the guidelines, are proposed to optimize the execution of the guidelines. The Modified Schofield guideline for the calculation of the calorie need for burn patients was used for evaluation. Results show that the execution of guidelines using the engine is very efficient. Using optimization algorithms the execution times can be lowered.