Medical Quality Assessment by Scoring Adherence to Guideline Intentions
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Medical quality assessment by scoring adherence to guideline intentions
Quality assessment of clinician actions and patient outcomes is a central problem in guideline- or standards-based medical care. In this paper we describe an approach for evaluating and consistently scoring clinician adherence to medical guidelines using the intentions of guideline authors. We present the Quality Indicator Language (QUIL) that may be used to formally specify quality constraints...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1067-5027,1527-974X
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.m1236