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Original Source: From Clinical Practice Guidelines to Computer-interpretable Guidelines. A Literature Overview.
Background: Guidelines are among us for over 30 years. Initially they were used as algorithmic protocols by nurses and other ancillary personnel. Many physicians regarded the use of guidelines as cookbook medicine. However, quality and patient safety issues have changed the attitude towards guidelines. Implementing formalized guidelines in a decision support system with an interface to an electronic patient record (EPR) makes the application of guidelines more personal and therefore acceptable at the moment...
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Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
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With hypertension affecting up to 75 million people in America alone, at a cost of $76 billion, it is one of the major medical issues facing us in the 21st century. The problems that hypertension pr...
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Interpreting diagnostic accuracy studies for patient care
Studies of tests that aim to diagnose clinical conditions that are directly applicable to daily practice should present test results that are directly interpretable in terms of individual patients—....
Development of Trustworthy Practice Guidelines
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Ovarian Guidelines: A Cautionary Tale
To conclude that patients will have superior outcome if treated according to guidelines is not accurate, says Dr. Maurie Markman, commenting on news reports on a study assessing NCCN guidelines. Med...
Update: New Hypertension Guidelines (Still) in the Works
The JNC8 guidelines for the management of patients with hypertension will differ from the JNC7 guidelines. Medscape Medical News
New Hypertension Guidelines (Still) in the Works
The JNC8 guidelines for the management of patients with hypertension will differ from the JNC7 guidelines. Medscape Medical News
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From Clinical Practice Guidelines to Computer-interpretable Guidelines. A Literature Overview.
Background: Guidelines are among us for over 30 years. Initially they were used as algorithmic protocols by nurses and other ancillary personnel. Many physicians regarded the use of guidelines as cook...
This article presents a framework and methodology to create personal health record (PHR) systems able to transform raw health data into meaningful information for the general population. By bridging t...
A Physician Order Category-Based Clinical Guideline Comparison System.
Today, in order to provide high-quality medical services and to extend resources and reduce costs, many large hospitals have adopted clinical guidelines as a structured way to manage medical activitie...
Guidelines for the management of knee and hip osteoarthritis: For Whom? Why? To do what?
This paper summarizes the guidelines published by the Osteoarthritis research society International(OARSI) and compares these guidelines with others. The OARSI guidelines are based on a systematic rev...
Nasal potential measurements on the nasal floor and under the inferior turbinate: Does it matter?
AIM: Measurement of nasal potential difference (NPD) is increasingly used as diagnostic test for cystic fibrosis (CF) and for in vivo evaluation of treatments aimed at correcting the defective functio...
