Resolving conflicts in clinical guidelines using argumentation
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Author(s)
Cyras, Kristijonas
Oliveira, Tiago
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Automatically reasoning with conflicting generic clinical guidelines is a burning issue in patient-centric medical reasoning where patient-specific conditions and goals need to be taken into account. It is even more challenging in the presence of preferences such as patient's wishes and clinician's priorities over goals. We advance a structured argumentation formalism for reasoning with conflicting clinical guidelines, patient-specific information and preferences. Our formalism integrates assumption-based reasoning and goal-driven selection among reasoning outcomes. Specifically, we assume applicability of guideline recommendations concerning the generic goal of patient well-being, resolve conflicts among recommendations using patient's conditions and preferences, and then consider prioritised patient-centered goals to yield non-conflicting, goal-maximising and preference-respecting recommendations. We rely on the state-of-the-art Transition-based Medical Recommendation model for representing guideline recommendations and augment it with context given by the patient's conditions, goals, as well as preferences over recommendations and goals. We establish desirable properties of our approach in terms of sensitivity to recommendation conflicts and patient context.
Date Issued
2019-05-08
Date Acceptance
2019-01-23
Citation
AAMAS '19 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, 2019, pp.1731-1739
ISBN
978-1-4503-6309-9
ISSN
2523-5699
Publisher
IFAAMAS / ACM
Start Page
1731
End Page
1739
Journal / Book Title
AAMAS '19 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems
Copyright Statement
©2019 International Foundation for Autonomous Agents andMultiagent Systems (www.ifaamas.org). All rights reserved.
Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Identifier
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3331904
Grant Number
EP/P029558/1
Source
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
Subjects
cs.AI
cs.AI
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2019-05-13
Finish Date
2019-05-17
Coverage Spatial
Montreal, Canada