ASM's Role in Writing Practice Guidelines

ASM's role in writing practice guidelines.

As the chair of the editorial board of the Cumitech series, I have read with great interest the recent minireview, “Impact of Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory,” by Dr. Peter H. Gilligan (1). I would like to call Dr. Gilligan’s attention to the Cumitech mission statement adopted in 2000, which states in part that “the purpose of the Cumitech series is to provi...

Writing Clinical Practice Guidelines in Controlled Natural Language

Clinicians could benefit from decision support systems incorporating the knowledge contained in clinical practice guidelines. However, the unstructured form of these guidelines makes them unsuitable for formal representation. To address this challenge we translated a complete set of pediatric guideline recommendations into Attempto Controlled English (ACE). One experienced pediatrician, one phy...

Practice guidelines: role of economics and physicians.

Comparing Use Case Writing Guidelines

Use cases are a widely used technique for requirements specification as part of the Unified Modelling Language (UML). However, use cases rely predominantly upon natural language. For this reason, the CREWS research group has proposed guidelines to assist in writing use cases. Various research groups, including ourselves, have found that writing guidelines (CREWS) help. However, our experience w...

ISUOG Practice Guidelines: role of ultrasound in twin pregnancy.

The International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG) is a scientific organization that encourages sound clinical practice, and high-quality teaching and research related to diagnostic imaging in women’s healthcare. The ISUOG Clinical Standards Committee (CSC) has a remit to develop Practice Guidelines and Consensus Statements as educational recommendations that provide h...