Towards computerizing intensive care sedation guidelines: design of a rule-based architecture for automated execution of clinical guidelines.

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Published in BMC Med Inform Decis Mak on January 18, 2010

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Femke Ongenae1, Femke De Backere, Kristof Steurbaut, Kirsten Colpaert, Wannes Kerckhove, Johan Decruyenaere, Filip De Turck

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Information Technology (INTEC), Ghent University - IBBT, Gaston Crommenlaan 8, Bus 201, 9050 Ghent, Belgium. Femke.Ongenae@intec.ugent.be

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