EBCPG: A visualized evidence-based clinical practice guideline system.

Full Abstract

Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines (CPG) have been recognized as an important guide to physicians for decision-making. These guidelines can assist physicians in giving good clinical care to their patients. Based on the overall healthcare improvements, medical care quality can be preserved while practice discrepancies and errors can be eliminated. Clear representation and accessible guideline content at the point care are also critical. One way to make implementation easier is through computerized and visualized guidelines combined with evidence-based literature. Therefore, this paper presents a computerized guideline system, EBCPG, which is composed of three main components:
CPGs exploration, EBM exploration and Web-base management to accommodate clinician decision-making and maintainability. Two tasks based on CPGs exploration and visualization technologies are involved in facilitating the presentation of the CPG model. EBCPG provides a comprehensive way to assist clinicians in making decisions according to the visualized clinical practice guidelines while dealing with patients.

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Author/s: Yang, Wen-Wen (WW); Chiang, I-Jen (IJ);

Affiliation: Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC. leo61519(-atsign-)ms10.hinet.net

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Studies in health technology and informatics (Stud Health Technol Inform), published in Netherlands. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2006-; vol 122 (issue ) : pp 465-70

Dates: Created 2006/11/14; Completed 2006/12/27; Revised 2007/11/15;

PMID: 17102301, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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