Clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) are expected to promote the implementation of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) and improve the quality of care. However, originally produced as texts often incomplete and ambiguous, CPGs are difficult to formalize. In addition, CPG modellers work a posteriori on textual CPGs with no connexion with CPG authors. In conjunction with the development of t...

OBJECTIVES To characterise the information needs of family doctors by collecting the questions they asked about patient care during consultations and to classify these in ways that would be useful to developers of knowledge bases. DESIGN Observational study in which investigators visited doctors for two half days and collected their questions. Taxonomies were developed to characterise the cli...

Oncofertility is an exciting new interdisciplinary field that encompasses the obstetrician gynecologist, gynecologic oncologist, reproductive endocrinologist, and primary care physician in a common goal to provide fertility preservation options for cancer patients. Maintaining their fertility is of the upmost importance for many oncology patients diagnosed during their childbearing years. This ...