TY - CHAP
T1 - Analyzing Differences in Operational Disease Definitions Using Ontological Modeling
AU - Peelen, Linda
AU - Klein, M.
AU - de Keizer, N. F.
AU - Peek, N.
AU - Schlobach, Stefan
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - In medicine, there are many diseases which cannot be precisely characterized but are considered as natural kinds. In the communication between health care professionals, this is generally not problematic. In biomedical research, however, crisp definitions are required to unambiguously distinguish patients with and without the disease. In practice, this results in different operational definitions being in use for a single disease. This paper presents an approach to compare different operational definitions of a single disease using ontological modeling. The approach is illustrated with a case-study in the area of severe sepsis.
AB - In medicine, there are many diseases which cannot be precisely characterized but are considered as natural kinds. In the communication between health care professionals, this is generally not problematic. In biomedical research, however, crisp definitions are required to unambiguously distinguish patients with and without the disease. In practice, this results in different operational definitions being in use for a single disease. This paper presents an approach to compare different operational definitions of a single disease using ontological modeling. The approach is illustrated with a case-study in the area of severe sepsis.
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73599-1_40
DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73599-1_40
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783540735984
SN - 3540735984
VL - 4594
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 297
EP - 307
BT - Artificial Intelligence in Medicine : 11th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine in Europe, AIME 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 7-11, 2007, Proceedings
A2 - Bellazzi, Riccardo
A2 - Abu-Hanna, Ameen
A2 - Hunter, Jim
PB - Springer
CY - Berlin; Heidelberg
T2 - 11th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2007
Y2 - 7 July 2007 through 11 July 2007
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