Constructing clinical pathway ontology to incorporate patient state, intervention and time
Clinical Pathway has become a beneficial and wellaccepted healthcare management tool in medical setting. During the execution of clinical pathway by multidisciplinary staff, a patient receives a set of medical interventions in an order of day by day until discharge. The determination of patient conditions is a key prerequisite to diagnostic decision making and treatment selection. Major patient states as well as underlying temporal information are preliminarily identified through consulting expert physician and referring to clinical pathway. A representational structure is designed and then realized by constructing a clinical pathway ontology. Two hierarchical bases that contain terms and knowledge are built and the ontology shows its ability to represent patient state, medical intervention and temporal information in clinical pathway. Further research needs be done based on our proposed clinical pathway ontology.
Clinical pathway Patient state Medical intervention Temporal Ontology
Wu Fan Xudong Lu Zhengxing Huang Weifei Yu Huilong Duan
College of Biomedical Engineering and Instrument Science, Zhejiang University The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering, Ministry of Education, China
国际会议
上海
英文
1709-1713
2011-10-15（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）