Validator for clinical practice guidelines

Abstract

Clinical Practice Guidelines have been designed to reduce uncertainty in the medical decision making in order to improve medical care and reduce costs. A way to facilitate and formalize this task is by translating it into the computers domain. This paper introduces a validator for clinicial practice guidelines as part of a Decision Support System. So, the clinical staff can introduce patient data for a particular disease, and the system is able to validate and find inconsistencies in the application of Clinical Practice Guideline for such disease. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.