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Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health-Care Data, Processes and Guidelines

KR4HC 2014: Knowledge Representation for Health Care pp 78–94Cite as

Semantic Representation of Evidence-Based Clinical Guidelines

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Abstract

Evidence-based Clinical Guidelines (EbCGs) are document or recommendation which have been created using the best clinical research findings of the highest value to aid in the delivery of optimum clinical care to patients. In this paper, we propose a lightweight formalism of evidence-based clinical guidelines by introducing the Semantic Web Technology for it. With the help of the tools which have been developed in the Semantic Web and Natural Language Processing (NLP), the generation of the formulations of evidence-based clinical guidelines become much easy. We will discuss several usecases of the semantic representation of EbCGs, and argue that it is potentially useful for the applications of the semantic web technology on the medical domain.

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    http://web.squ.edu.om/med-Lib/med/net/e-pathways-net/Docs/GLIF3_TECH_ SPEC.pdf

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_interoperability

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This work is partially supported by the European Commission under the 7th framework programme EURECA Project (FP7-ICT-2011-7, Grant 288048).

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  1. Department of Computer Science, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Zhisheng Huang, Annette ten Teije & Frank van Harmelen

  2. Xerox Research Centre Europe, Meylan, France

    Salah Aït-Mokhtar

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  2. Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

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Huang, Z., ten Teije, A., van Harmelen, F., Aït-Mokhtar, S. (2014). Semantic Representation of Evidence-Based Clinical Guidelines. In: Miksch, S., Riaño, D., ten Teije, A. (eds) Knowledge Representation for Health Care. KR4HC 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8903. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13281-5_6

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