Executable medical guidelines with Arden Syntax—Applications in dermatology and obstetrics

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Highlights:

• We discuss Arden Syntax as a modern medical knowledge representation and processing language.

• This language is not only well suited to define clinical alerts, reminders, and recommendations, but can also be used to implement and process computerized medical practice guidelines.

• Two guideline-based applications using Arden Syntax for medical knowledge representation and processing were developed.

• The first is a software platform for implementing practice guidelines from dermatology.

• The second application implements a reminder system based on clinically published standard operating procedures in obstetrics.

摘要

•We discuss Arden Syntax as a modern medical knowledge representation and processing language.•This language is not only well suited to define clinical alerts, reminders, and recommendations, but can also be used to implement and process computerized medical practice guidelines.•Two guideline-based applications using Arden Syntax for medical knowledge representation and processing were developed.•The first is a software platform for implementing practice guidelines from dermatology.•The second application implements a reminder system based on clinically published standard operating procedures in obstetrics.

论文关键词:Clinical decision support,Arden Syntax,Fuzzy set theory and logic,Medical practice guidelines,Standard operating procedures,Dermatology,Lyme borreliosis,Obstetrics

论文评审过程:Received 17 May 2015, Accepted 10 August 2016, Available online 12 August 2016, Version of Record 17 December 2018.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2016.08.003