Identifying Actions Described in Clinical Practice Guidelines Using Semantic Relations
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Clinical practice guidelines are important instruments to support clinical care. We have analyzed guidelines according to their semantic relations in order to generate a formal representation. We used the UMLS Semantic Network as a basis for our analysis. We defined relations that will be used to automatically identify the control flow described in guidelines for generating a computerinterpretable format. A study showed that by using semantic relations we are able to discover a large part of the control flow.
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تاریخ انتشار 2010