HGML: a hypertext guideline markup language

Existing text-based clinical practice guidelines can be difficult to put into practice. While a growing number of such documents have gained acceptance in the medical community and contain a wealth of valuable information, the time required to digest them is substantial. Yet the expressive power, su...

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Published in:Proceedings - AMIA Symposium 2000, p.325-329
Main Authors: Hagerty, C G, Pickens, D, Kulikowski, C, Sonnenberg, F
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Decision Support Systems, Clinical
Feasibility Studies
Hypermedia
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Programming Languages
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Summary:Existing text-based clinical practice guidelines can be difficult to put into practice. While a growing number of such documents have gained acceptance in the medical community and contain a wealth of valuable information, the time required to digest them is substantial. Yet the expressive power, subtlety and flexibility of natural language pose challenges when designing computer tools that will help in their application. At the same time, formal computer languages typically lack such expressiveness and the effort required to translate existing documents into these languages may be costly. We propose a method based on the mark-up concept for converting text-based clinical guidelines into a machine-operable form. This allows existing guidelines to be manipulated by machine, and viewed in different formats at various levels of detail according to the needs of the practitioner, while preserving their originally published form.
ISSN:1531-605X