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Authors:
Osamu Takaki
Izumi Takeuti
Koichi Takahashi
Koichiro Murata
Noriaki Izumi
Koiti Hasida
Keywords: quality indicator, evaluation of medical service, ontology, medical database
Abstract:
Quality indicators play an important role in quantitatively measuring the quality of medical services. In this paper, we introduce a representation system that helps define quality indicators and calculate their values in a coherent manner based on the data in medical databases. The representation system primarily consists of three parts. The first one is an ontology to define concepts related to medical services. The second one is a set of graphs that express the targets of quantification. The third one is a set of quantifying concepts that abstract quantities of the target concepts. The proposed representation system adequately divides the work for defining quality indicators and calculating their values from the data in medical databases, and, hence, it assists medical staffs and system engineers who manage medical databases to perform their own work and to collaborate on the evaluation and the comparison of medical services.
Pages: 249 to 255
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012
Publication date: January 30, 2012
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4359
ISBN: 978-1-61208-179-3
Location: Valencia, Spain
Dates: from January 30, 2012 to February 4, 2012