Abstract Knowledge Engineering allows to automate entity recognition and relation
extraction from clinical texts, which in turn can be used to facilitate clinical practice guideline …

Abstract Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) contain recommendations intended to optimize
patient care, produced based on a systematic review of evidence. In turn, Computer …

The introduction of electronic medical records (EMRs) enabled the access of unprecedented
volumes of clinical data, both in structured and unstructured formats. A significant amount of …

This paper reports on a case-study of applying various publicly available resources (lexical,
terminological and ontological) for medical recognition tasks, that is, for identifying medical …

Clinical Guidelines are a major tool in improving the quality of medical care. However, most
guidelines are in free text, not machine comprehensible, and are not easily accessible to …

OBJECTIVE: The quality of knowledge updates in evidence-based medical guidelines can
be improved and the effort spent for updating can be reduced if the knowledge underlying …

Clinical practice guidelines are important instruments to support clinical care. In this work we
analysed how activities are formulated in these documents and we tried to represent the …

Modelling clinical practice guidelines in a computer-interpretable format is a challenging
and complex task. The modelling process involves both medical experts and computer …

Research in the computerization of Clinical Guidelines (CG) has often opposed document-
based approaches to knowledge-based ones. In this paper, we suggest that both …

The integration of a computer-based system dealing with clinical guidelines with a medical
ontology can provide several advantages, including standardization and knowledge …