Shahar Yuval, Shalom Erez, Mayaffit Alon, Young Ohad, Galperin Maya, Martins Susana, Goldstein Mary
Department of Information Systems Engineering, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel.
AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2003;2003:589-93.
The Digital Electronic Guideline Library (DeGeL) is a Web-based framework and a set of distributed tools that facilitate gradual conversion of clinical guidelines from free text, through semi-structured text, to a fully structured, executable representation. Thus, guidelines exist in a hybrid, multiple-format representation The three formats support increasingly sophisticated computational tasks. The tools perform semantic markup, classification, search, and browsing, and support computational modules that we are developing, for run-time application and retrospective quality assessment. We describe the DeGeL architecture and its collaborative-authoring authorization model, which is based on (1) multiple medical-specialty authoring groups, each including a group manager who controls group authorizations, and (2) a hierarchical authorization model based on the different functions involved in the hybrid guideline-specification process. We have implemented the core modules of the DeGeL architecture and demonstrated distributed markup and retrieval using the knowledge roles of two guidelines ontologies (Asbru and GEM). We are currently evaluating several of the DeGeL tools.
数字电子指南库（DeGeL）是一个基于网络的框架和一组分布式工具，可促进临床指南从自由文本逐步转换为半结构化文本，再到完全结构化的可执行表示形式。因此，指南以混合的、多种格式的表示形式存在。这三种格式支持越来越复杂的计算任务。这些工具执行语义标记、分类、搜索和浏览，并支持我们正在开发的用于运行时应用和回顾性质量评估的计算模块。我们描述了DeGeL架构及其协作创作授权模型，该模型基于（1）多个医学专业创作组，每个创作组包括一名控制组授权的组管理员，以及（2）基于混合指南规范过程中涉及的不同功能的分层授权模型。我们已经实现了DeGeL架构的核心模块，并使用两种指南本体（Asbru和GEM）的知识角色演示了分布式标记和检索。我们目前正在评估DeGeL的几种工具。
