The electronic dissemination of medical knowledge in the form of executable clinical guidelines and decision support systems must be accompanied by comprehensive methods for ensuring the quality of their knowledge content and their safety in use. This paper outlines a set of quality and safety requirements, and reviews three current guideline technologies, the Arden Syntax, GLIF and PROforma, a...

An e-Business standard is a technical specification which provides a shared understanding and agreement on the shared information and data among trading partners. Standards are usually developed in a standards development organisation, where a guideline for the process of developing standards is provided. However, these guidelines are mainly concerned about the administrative aspect of the stan...

International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), an independent international organization established in 1925, develops, maintains, and elaborates radiological protection standards, legislation, and guidelines. United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) provides scientific evidence. World Health Organization (WHO) and International Atomic Energy...

Over the past twenty-five years there have been a number of initiatives worldwide to develop guidelines and standards to enable the safe exploitation of programmable electronic systems used for safety applications. In the context of industrial applications (to distinguish from aerospace and military applications) a major initiative has been focused on IEC 61508, and other standards based on IEC...

conclusions the overall score of nursing care as regards adherence to the neonatal hemovigilance guidelines was 59.6% in the present study, indicating a lack of care and failure in training in this regard. results the rates of compliance with the hemovigilance guidelines in terms of request, transfusion, and documentation were 47%, 63.2%, and 68%, correspondingly, with a total score of 59.6% in...

Metadata is essential to the semantic discovery of a digital library. A lot of metadata standards have been issued in recent years , but few standards or guidelines are actually implemented . Practitioners are always suffering from no guidelines or pilot projects can be referenced when developing digital library applications. The situation does no good to overcome interoperability problems betw...

Safety case is a structured argument aimed to argue the system is acceptably safe to operate in a specific environment. Safety cases have been successfully used as documentation to support the certification process of safety-critical systems. Safety case patterns have been used to document recurrent safety argumentation solutions that have evolved over time by providing a simple and efficient s...

background and objectives: standard clinical documentation is an integral part of quality patient care. this study aimed to explore compliance of two iranian teaching hospitals with the clinical documentation standards.   methods: a total of 400 records were surveyed. data were collected using a checklist of standard measures. the checklist comprised 15 items selected from relevant guidelines...