Bridging the gap between narrative text guideline and its computer-interpretable version: taking into consideration and supporting the user perspective

This proposal focuses on the research question on how to develop a system that produces a formalized guideline. The output of this research project on the one hand, helps the medical personal in consulting and in their decision-making process and, on the other hand, fills the gap between the CPGs and their computer-interpretable representations. We use a document-centric model approach, which goal is to lose as minimum information as possible, preserving so the original “guideline spirit”. We will create a formalization that can be used as a connecting bridge between computer-interpretable guideline representation and the narrative text of a guideline. From our perspective a guideline should have two different formalizations: one that is used and created for end users (e.g., consulting guideline for physicians) and another one that can more easily be executed and interpreted by a computer. Hence, we consider the problem from another perspective as regards to the current approaches.