A pattern-based approach for representing condition-action clinical rules into DSSs

The integration of clinical recommendations into clinical Decision Support Systems (DSSs), aims at increasing the consistent, effective, and efficient of the daily medical practice. The actual application of those systems to medical settings depends on the severity of the upgradability and maintainability they require. With this respect, this paper proposes a pattern-based approach to guide and assist physicians in the process of editing and formalizing clinical recommendations, formalized as if-then rules.