The execution of clinical guidelines and protocols (CGPs) is a challenging task in high-
frequency domains such as Intensive Care Units. On the one hand, sophisticated temporal …

The execution of clinical guidelines and protocols (CGP) is a challenging task in high-
frequency domains such as Intensive Care Units. On the one hand, sophisticated temporal …

As the complexity and amount of medical information keeps increasing, it is difficult to
maintain the same quality of care. Therefore, clinical guidelines are used to structure best …

12 In critical care environments important medical and economical challenges are
presented by the enhancement of therapeutic quality and the reduction of therapeutic costs …

Objectives Design, implement, and evaluate a new architecture for realistic continuous
guideline (GL)-based decision support, based on a series of requirements that we have …

Clinical decision support systems are a combination of software techniques to help the
clinicians in their medical decision making process via functionalities ranging from basic …

Clinical guidelines and protocols have become increasingly important in clinical practice.
Computer-based application of guidelines is one of the keys to improved patient care …

This paper reports work in progress on a program to provide diagnostic and therapeutic
suggestions about patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The Ventilator Manager …

Clinicians can benefit from automated support to guideline (GL) application at the point of
care. However, several conceptual dimensions should be considered for a realistic …

OBJECTIVE: In this paper, we define a principled approach to represent temporal
constraints in clinical guidelines and to reason (ie, perform inferences in the form of …