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From Paper Based Clinical Practice Guidelines to Declarative Workflow Management

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We present a field study of oncology workflow, involving doctors, nurses and pharmacists at Danish hospitals and discuss the obstacles, enablers and challenges for the use of computer based clinical practice guidelines. Related to the CIGDec approach of Pesic and van der Aalst we then describe how a sub workflow can be described in a declarative workflow management system: the Resultmaker Online Consultant (ROC). The example demonstrates that declarative primitives allow to naturally extend the paper based flowchart to an executable model without introducing a complex cyclic control flow graph.

This work was funded in part by the Danish Research Agency (grant no.: 2106-07-0019, no.: 274-06-0415) and the IT University of Copenhagen (the TrustCare and CosmoBiz projects).

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 128, building 24, 2300, Copenhagen S, Denmark

    Karen Marie Lyng

  2. IT University of Copenhagen, Rued Langgaardsvej 7, 2300, Copenhagen S, Denmark

    Thomas Hildebrandt & Raghava Rao Mukkamala

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  1. Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Via Golgi 40, 20133, Milano, Italy

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  2. Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Via Salaria 113,, 00198, Roma, Italy

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  3. Department of Computing, Macquarie University, 2109, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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Lyng, K.M., Hildebrandt, T., Mukkamala, R.R. (2009). From Paper Based Clinical Practice Guidelines to Declarative Workflow Management. In: Ardagna, D., Mecella, M., Yang, J. (eds) Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2008. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 17. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00328-8_34

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