Arden Syntax:Implementation Guide

Implementation Guide Arden Syntax

This page will collect material for a Arden Syntax implementation guide

General Outline

Context: Arden Syntax in the CDS World

• How Arden came about and evolved
• How Arden relates to other standards used in clinical decision support

Syntax Description Part

Syntax Description

basically taken from Medexters How-To

Basic tasks (by example)

• common tasks (e.g. search a list for a specific value, sort a list of objects etc.)
• small snippets of MLM code on how to solve specific problems (e.g. in former versions it was not possible to convert a String into a Date, this section should explain on how to do this)
  • calculate the current age in years from a given birthday
• call sub MLM
• create complex knowledge bases with MLMs

Programming / Engineering Use Cases (how to implement ...):

Every use case should contain at least one example MLM.

• decision trees/tables
• production system
• state machines / transitions
• guidelines
• fuzzy control
• use of external knowledge bases
• creation and maintenance of documents (e.g., CHICA system)
• (any other ideas ?)

Clinical Use Cases

How to use Arden to deliver decision support in particular clinical or administrative scenarios

• immunizations
• hospital admission quality indicators
• population-based decision support (e.g., infection control)

References

Notable publications about Arden Syntax.

Chapter that might be included

Implementations

• available implementations of Arden Syntax - available compilers etc. -> see "The Arden Syntax standard for clinical decision support: experiences and directions", Samwald et. al.

Applications

• available implementations based on Arden Syntax) -> see "The Arden Syntax standard for clinical decision support: experiences and directions", Samwald et. al.