De Figueiredo, Renan Pereira, Ferreira Filho, Joao Bosco, Sousa, Flavio R. C., Weber, Philip and Litchfield, Ian (2020). Automated Verification of Care Pathways Using Constraint Programming. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 24 (9), pp. 2718-2725.
Abstract
Bad construction of modeled care pathways can lead to satisfiability problems during the pathway execution. These problems can ultimately result in medical errors and need to be checked as formally as possible. Therefore, this study proposes a set of algorithms using a free open-source library dedicated to constraint programming allied with a DSL to encode and verify care pathways, checking four possible problems: states in deadlock, non-determinism, inaccessible steps and transitions with logically equivalent guard conditions. We then test our algorithms in 84 real care pathways used both in hospitals and surgeries. Using our algorithms, we were able to find 200 problems taking less than 1 second to complete the verification on most pathways.
| Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2020.2977032 |
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| Divisions: | College of Engineering & Physical Sciences College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Clinical pathway,DSL,constraint programming,data-dependent transition system,satisfiability problems,Biotechnology,Computer Science Applications,Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Health Information Management |
| Publication ISSN: | 2168-2194 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Apr 2024 07:12 |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Mar 2020 13:03 |
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PURE Output Type: | Article |
| Published Date: | 2020-09-01 |
| Published Online Date: | 2020-02-28 |
| Accepted Date: | 2020-02-01 |
| Authors: |
De Figueiredo, Renan Pereira
Ferreira Filho, Joao Bosco Sousa, Flavio R. C. Weber, Philip ( 
0000-0002-3121-9625)
Litchfield, Ian |
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