Guideline Development: Focus on Breast Cancer Screening in the EsPeR Project

We describe in this paper, the implementation of a clinical practice guideline focused on breast cancer screening. Our aim in conceiving such a computerized guideline was first to help general practitioners in appreciating the risks their female patients might develop breast cancer and secondly to suggest them the screening measures adapted to each particular case. This implementation enables us to present our general methodology to elaborated and promulgate guidelines within the EsPeR project. This methodology aims at providing guidelines based on knowledge validated according to the EBM principles, that can be used in real time and updated according to current knowledge.

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