Background: The use of clinical decision support systems to facilitate the practice of
evidence-based medicine promises to substantially improve health care quality. Objective: To …

This chapter discusses information technology that provides health-care workers and patients
with situation-specific advice that can inform their decision making. The intricacies of the …

In the assessment of the statistical properties of a diagnostic test, for example the sensitivity
and specificity of the test, it is common to derive estimates from a sample limited to those …

Objectives: Many groups are developing computer-interpretable clinical guidelines (CIGs)
for use during clinical encounters. CIGs use “Task-Network Models” for representation but …

Information management constitutes a major activity of the health care professional.
Currently, a number of forces are focusing attention on this function. After many years of …

Objective: To allow exchange of clinical practice guidelines among institutions and computer-based
applications. Design: The GuideLine Interchange Format (GLIF) specification …

The Guideline Interchange Format (GLIF) is a model for representation of sharable computer-interpretable
guidelines. The current version of GLIF (GLIF3) is a substantial update and …

The Guideline Interchange Format (GLIF) is a language for structured representation of
guidelines. It was developed to facilitate sharing clinical guidelines. GLIF version 2 enabled …

Background Many healthcare organizations have implemented adverse event reporting
systems in the hope of learning from experience to prevent adverse events and medical errors. …

Computer-based clinical decision support (CDS) has been pursued for more than five decades.
Despite notable accomplishments and successes, wide adoption and broad use of CDS …