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Requirements about the quality of medical guidelines can be represented using schemata borrowed from the theory of abductive diagnosis, using temporal logic to model the time-oriented aspects expressed in a guideline. In this paper, we investigate how this approach can be mapped to the facilities offered by a theorem proving system for program verification, KIV. It is shown that the reasoning that is required for checking the quality of a guideline can be mapped to such theorem-proving facilities. The medical quality of an actual guideline concerning diabetes mellitus 2 is investigated in this way, and some problems discovered are discussed.
This work has been partially supported by the European Commission’s IST program, under contract number IST-FP6-508794 Protocure II.
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Hommersom, A., Lucas, P., Balser, M. (2004). Meta-level Verification of the Quality of Medical Guidelines Using Interactive Theorem Proving. In: Alferes, J.J., Leite, J. (eds) Logics in Artificial Intelligence. JELIA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3229. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30227-8_54
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