A Pattern-based Analysis of Clinical Computer-Interpretable Guideline Modelling Languages
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چکیده
In this paper we evaluate clinical guidelines modelling languages using the Workflow Patterns as an analysis framework. The analysis provided for clinical guidelines aims at an unbiased and vendor-independent survey of the expressive power of some modelling languages for representing clinical guidelines. The results from the survey could be used for the selection of a specification for representing a guideline, as well as for motivation and input to further development of any of the surveyed languages. The pattern-based analysis has been applied to Asbru, EON, GLIF, and PROforma. The evaluation shows that these languages are remarkably close to traditional workflow languages. Moreover, as this paper shows, our analysis could help in the improvement and clarification of existing languages in this domain.
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