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A Physician Order Category-Based Clinical Guideline Comparison System

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Today, in order to provide high-quality medical services and to extend resources and reduce costs, many large hospitals have adopted clinical guidelines as a structured way to manage medical activities. However, customization of clinical guidelines in order to treat a large number of patients is a major challenge. In this paper, we present a physician order category-based clinical guideline comparison system. The system uses a preprocessor software to convert the clinical guidelines from a Microsoft Word document into XML format, and it can also compare clinical guidelines over the conceptual view such as the physician order category. The system has already been used to compare the HCC surgical clinical guidelines of Taiwan and Mongolia—resulting in some differences being found, for which possible causes were discussed. Therefore, it can be seen that our research provides a practical and convenient way in which to compare clinical guidelines based on physician order category—thereby saving time and enabling physicians to quickly resolve discrepancies and make necessary adjustments to clinical guidelines.

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  1. Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Chia-Ping Shen, Jin-Ming Wu & Feipei Lai

  2. Computer and Information Networking Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Chi-Huang Chen

  3. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Hwan-Jeu Yu, Chih-Wen Hsueh & Feipei Lai

  4. Computer Science and Management School, Mongolian University of Science and Technology, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

    Sarangerel Dorjgochoo & Erdenebaatar Altangerel

  5. Department of Information Systems Office, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

    Chia-Ping Shen

  6. Department of Hepatobiliary-pancreatic Surgery, Mongolian National Cancer Center, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

    Chinburen Jigjidsuren

  7. Institute of Preventive Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

    Mei-Shu Lai

  8. Department of Otolaryngology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

    Ching-Ting Tan

  9. Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

    Jin-Ming Wu

  10. Department of Information Management, Tamkang University, New Taipei, Taiwan

    Hung-Chang Lee

  11. Department of Electrical Engineering, Tonghai University, Taichung, Taiwan

    Yufang Chung

  12. #1 Roosevelt Rd., Sec. 4, Taipei, 106, Taiwan

    Jin-Ming Wu

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Yu, HJ., Shen, CP., Dorjgochoo, S. et al. A Physician Order Category-Based Clinical Guideline Comparison System. J Med Syst 36, 3741–3753 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-012-9847-x

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