Ertle AR, Campbell EM, Hersh WR. Automated Application of Clinical Practice Guidelines for Asthma Management. Proc. AMIA 96, 1996: 552556.  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles   Check

....for a preferred set of choices or they can be considered a normative set of rules. TELEMATICS AND GUIDELINES Many efforts have been devoted in the last few years in realizing computerized tools for guidelines management (see for example: Vissers and co workers [5] and Ertle and co workers [6]) Clinical practice guidelines are seen as a tool for improving the quality and cost efficiency of care in an increasingly complex health care delivery environment. It has been proved that adherence to plans may reduce cost of care up to 25 [3] The European PRESTIGE project (Guidelines for ....

Ertle AR, Campbell EM, Hersh WR. Automated Application of Clinical Practice Guidelines for Asthma Management. Proc. AMIA 96, 1996: 552556.

....performance is that it is difficult to determine whether good performance is due to the NLP system or whether it is due to some conditions present in the application or text. For example, keyword search techniques have been reported to work well for identifying patients with a specific disease [26,38]. In those situations, performance may inadvertently be related to factors associated with the way the disease is reported and not with the NLP methodology. To illustrate this, we chose the first 808 chronological records of patients who were discharged from Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center ....

Ertle A, Campbell E, and Hersh W. Automated Application of Clinical Practice Guidelines for Asthma Management.Cimino J. Proceedings of the 1996 AMIA Fall Annual Symposium. Philadelphia. Henley & Belfus. 1996;p552-6.

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