8 9 Abstract 10 11 The control of the right application of medical protocols is a key issue in hospital environments. 12 For the automated monitoring of medical protocols, we need a domain-independent language for 13 their representation and a fully, or semi, autonomous system that understands the protocols and 14 supervises their application. In this paper we describe a specification language ...

INTRODUCTION Although the clinical effects of infliximab therapy in rheumatoid arthritis have been documented extensively, the biological effects of this intervention continue to be defined. We sought to examine the impact of infliximab therapy on the serum proteome of rheumatoid arthritis patients by means of a mass spectrometry-based approach. METHODS Sera from 10 patients with rheumatoid a...

BACKGROUND Optimal treatment of Graves' disease in paediatric patients is still a matter of controversy. Antithyroid drugs, radioiodine and thyroidectomy are the three therapeutic options available. AIM To report our experience of long-term medical treatment and outcome of paediatric Graves' disease. METHODS A 5-y-long medical protocol was implemented in 20 children and adolescents with Gra...

BACKGROUND The primary data on the patient's status are articulated by the patient and consist of conditions that force the patient to seek treatment. Such data helps the physician effectively to make an appropriate list of differential diagnoses to establish a treatment protocol. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to review the frequency of patients' chief complaints in Hajj to plan ...

Conservative clinical solutions, predictable esthetic, and immediate outcomes are important concepts of restorative dentistry. The aim of this case study was to recognize the selective enamel removal as an interesting conservative alternative to achieve optimal esthetic results and discuss the clinical protocol. This clinical report described an alternative esthetic and conservative treatment t...

objectives: to evaluate the effect of two simultaneous protocols in reducing recovery time and assessment of adverse effects of different fluid replacement therapy in management of diabetic ketoacidosis. materials and methods: in this randomized clinical trial study, two standard protocols were chosen to evaluate recovery time and incidence of dka complications. results: 18 subjects who had sev...

In the medical domain, clinical practice guidelines and protocols build a commonly accepted way to improve patient health care. During the last years various approaches have been presented to support the computerization of such guidelines and protocols. However, the verification of clinical protocols has not become an extensive research topic yet. In this paper we will present a partial and dom...

UNLABELLED The accuracy of clinical SPECT is highly dependent on the acquisition and processing parameters, which are selected according to the clinical task. These parameters are usually set within protocols in order to allow for standardization from one study to another and to speed up the clinical routine. METHODS In the first part of this work, tomographic images of a Jaszczak phantom wer...

Encoding guidelines and treatment protocols in formal and computer-executable form is not a trivial task and requires the collaboration between clinicians and knowledge engineers. In this paper, we describe CliP-MoKi, a Semantic Media Wiki (SMW)-based tool for the collaborative encoding in a distributed environment of cancer treatment protocols in Asbru. CliP-MoKi exploits the great flexibility...