ASTI: a guideline-based drug-ordering system for primary care.
Stud Health Technol Inform
; 84(Pt 1): 528-32, 2001.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-11604796
ABSTRACT
Existing computer-based ordering systems for physicians provide effective drug-centered checks but offer little assistance for optimizing the overall patient-centered treatment strategy. Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines have been developed to disseminate state-of-the-art information concerning treatment strategy but these guidelines are poorly used in routine practice. The ASTI project aims to design a guideline-based ordering system to enable general practitioners to avoid prescription errors and to improve compliance with best therapeutic practices. The " critic mode " operates as a background process and corrects the physician's prescription on the basis of automatically triggered elementary rules that account for isolated guideline recommendations. The " guided mode " directs the physician to the best treatment by browsing a comprehensive guideline knowledge base represented as a decision tree. A first prototype, applied to hypertension, is currently under development.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Primary Health Care
/
Drug Therapy, Computer-Assisted
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Practice Guidelines as Topic
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Decision Support Systems, Clinical
Type of study:
Guideline
/
Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Stud Health Technol Inform
Journal subject:
INFORMATICA MEDICA
/
PESQUISA EM SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Year:
2001
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
France