Annotating evidence based clinical guidelines: A lightweight ontology

Rinke Hoekstra; Anita De Waard; Richard Vdovjak

Annotating evidence based clinical guidelines: A lightweight ontology

Rinke Hoekstra, Anita De Waard, Richard Vdovjak

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Abstract

This paper describes a lightweight ontology for representing annotations of declarative evidence based clinical guidelines. We present the motivation and requirements for this representation, based on an analysis of several guidelines. The ontology provides the means to connect clinical questions and associated recommendations to underlying evidence, and can capture strength and quality of recommendations and evidence, respectively. The ontology was applied in the conversion of manual annotations to RDF and used as part of a prototype clinical decision support system.

Original language	English
Journal	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume	952
State	Published - Jan 1 2012
Event	5th International Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences, SWAT4LS 2012 - Paris, France Duration: Nov 28 2012 → Nov 30 2012

Keywords

Annotation
Clinical decision support
Clinical guideline
Evidence based
Linked data
RDF

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