The importance of creating an ontology-specific consensus before a markup-based specification of clinical guidelines

Erez Shalom; Yuval Shahar; Eitan Lunenfeld; Meirav Taieb-Maimon; Ohad Young; D Goren-Bar; S Martins; L Vaszar; Y Liel; A Yarkoni

The importance of creating an ontology-specific consensus before a markup-based specification of clinical guidelines

Erez Shalom, Yuval Shahar, Eitan Lunenfeld, Meirav Taieb-Maimon, Ohad Young, D Goren-Bar, S Martins, L Vaszar, Y Liel, A Yarkoni

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Abstract

We have previously developed the Digital electronic Guideline Library (DeGeL) framework, which includes a methodology for a markup-based, increasingly formal structuring of free-text clinical guidelines (GLs), and tools to support
guideline-based application. The methodology includes activities be-fore, during and after the markup process. To reduce the ambiguity of the interpretation of a GL among the Expert Physicians (EPs) who are marking up the GL, and to achieve an interpretation common to the EPs and the knowledge engineers (KEs), an indispensable step before markup is the creation of an
Ontology Specific Consensus (OSC) regarding the semantics of the GL. To evaluate the role of the OSC, we created OSCs for three GLs in incremental level of de-tail, using the Asbru GL ontology.The EPs quantified the subjective aspects that most helped them in creating the OSC, while we assessed the clinical and ontological markup errors committed by the EPs. Using medical knowledge
and understanding the GL ontology were considered more helpful than understanding the DeGeL tools; and the more detailed the OSC, the less the number of markup errors committed.

Original language	English GB
Title of host publication	AI techniques in healthcare: evidencebased guidelines and protocols; Workshop at the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-06)
State	Published - 2006

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Shalom, E., Shahar, Y., Lunenfeld, E., Taieb-Maimon, M., Young, O., Goren-Bar, D., Martins, S., Vaszar, L., Liel, Y., & Yarkoni, A. (2006). The importance of creating an ontology-specific consensus before a markup-based specification of clinical guidelines. In AI techniques in healthcare: evidencebased guidelines and protocols; Workshop at the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-06)

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The importance of creating an ontology-specific consensus before a markup-based specification of clinical guidelines. / Shalom, Erez; Shahar, Yuval; Lunenfeld, Eitan et al.
AI techniques in healthcare: evidencebased guidelines and protocols; Workshop at the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-06). 2006.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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