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Lately, there have been considerable efforts to computerize Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) so that they can be executed via Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) at the point of care. We present a Semantic Web framework to both model and execute the knowledge within a CPG to develop knowledge-centric CDSS. Our approach entails knowledge modeling through a synergy between multiple ontologies–i.e. a domain ontology, CPG ontology and patient ontology. We develop decision-rules based on the ontologies, and execute them with a proof engine to derive CPG-based patient specific recommendations. We present a prototype of our CPG-based CDSS to execute the CPG for Follow-up after Treatment for Breast Cancer.
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Hussain, S., Raza Abidi, S., Raza Abidi, S.S. (2007). Semantic Web Framework for Knowledge-Centric Clinical Decision Support Systems. In: Bellazzi, R., Abu-Hanna, A., Hunter, J. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. AIME 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4594. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73599-1_60
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