Modeling of Clinical Practice Guidelines for an Interactive Decision Support Using Ontologies

Modern medicine typically offers a diverse set of treatment options, rapidly evolving over time. In this context, Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) are able to provide recommendations for actions and by that a frame of reference for medical experts during various treatment processes. To facilitate the implementation of these recommendations, we propose an interactive decision support system (DSS). For this reason, the CPGs of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia, Myelodysplastic Syndromes, Mantle Cell Lymphoma, and Multiple Myeloma are formalized using ontologies. The resulting models serve as an exemplary basis for a DSS, providing patient-specific as well as CPG compliant recommendations.