Annotating Evidence Based Clinical Guidelines A Lightweight Ontology

Open Access
Authors
Publication date 2012
Host editors
  • A. Paschke
  • A. Burger
  • P. Romano
  • M.S. Marshall
  • A. Splendiani
Book title Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences
Book subtitle Paris, France, November 28-30, 2012
Series CEUR workshop proceedings
Event SWAT4LS 2012: Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences 2012
Number of pages 12
Publisher Aachen: CEUR-WS
Organisations
  • Faculty of Law (FdR) - Leibniz Center for Law (FdR)
Abstract This paper describes a lightweight ontology for representing annotations of declarative evidence based clinical guidelines. We present the motivation and requirements for this representation, based on an analysis of several guidelines. The ontology provides the means to connect clinical questions and associated recommendations to underlying evidence, and can capture strength and quality of recommendations and evidence, respectively. The ontology was applied in the conversion of manual annotations to RDF and used as part of a prototype clinical decision support system.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-952/paper_13.pdf
Other links http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-952
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