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A framework and tools for authoring, editing, documenting, sharing, searching, navigating, and executing computer-based clinical guidelines.

Year: 1999

Type: article

Abstract: With the spread of managed care and integrated delivery networks, an increased emphasis has been placed on the cost-effectiveness of clinical practices. The need has been recognized to use guidelines to support education, and to integrate them into clinical practice. A specification for guideline representation that would facilitate computer-based clinical guideline sharing has been developed by the InterMed Collaboratory. Called GLIF (GuideLine Interchange Format), this specification and its proposed extensions have been the basis for our implementation of a framework and suite of integrated software tools for guideline authoring and editing, packaging in XML, Internet distribution, navigation, eligibility determination, and automatic execution.

Source: PubMed Central

Authors: R A Greenes, A Boxwala, W N Sloan, L Ohno-Machado, S R Deibel

Institutions: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University

Language: English

Topic: Clinical practice guidelines implementation

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: U.S. National Library of Medicine

Award: CONFERENCE--GUIDELINE INTERCHANGE FORMAT (GLIF) WORKSHOP