Toward the validation of patient data for clinical practice guidelines

Clinical practice guidelines have been designed to reduce uncertainty in the medical decision making in order to improve medical care and reduce costs. A way to facilitate and formalize this task is by translating it into the computers domain. This paper introduces a validator of patient data for clinical practice guidelines as part of a decision support system. So, the clinical staff can introduce patient data for a particular disease, and the system is able to find inconsistencies in the application of clinical practice guideline for such disease.