Reconciliation of multiple guidelines for decision support: a case study on the multidisciplinary management of breast cancer within the DESIREE project

AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2018 Apr 16:2017:1527-1536. eCollection 2017.

Abstract

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. DESIREE is a European project which aims at developing web-based services for the management of primary breast cancer by multidisciplinary breast units (BUs). We describe the guideline-based decision support system (GL-DSS) of the project. Various breast cancer clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) have been selected to be concurrently applied to provide state-of-the-art patient-specific recommendations. The aim is to reconcile CPG recommendations with the objective of complementarity to enlarge the number of clinical situations covered by the GL-DSS. Input and output data exchange with the GL-DSS is performed using FHIR. We used a knowledge model of the domain as an ontology on which relies the reasoning process performed by rules that encode the selected CPGs. Semantic web tools were used, notably the Euler/EYE inference engine, to implement the GL-DSS. "Rainbow boxes" are a synthetic tabular display used to visualize the inferred recommendations.

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Breast Neoplasms / therapy*
  • Clinical Decision-Making
  • Decision Support Systems, Clinical*
  • Female
  • France
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic*
  • Software