1. A Multiple-Ontology Customizable Search Interface for Retrieval of Clinical Practice Guidelines Robert Moskovitch and Yuval Shahar Medical Informatics Research Center Department of Information Systems Engineering Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel

2. DeGeL – Digital electronic Guidelines Library The Digital electronic Guideline Library (DeGeL): Guideline Indexing The DeGeL repository includes two entity types: – Source Guidelines (SGLs) –Marked-Up Guidelines (MGLs) MGLs may be represented in different ontologies (e.g., Asbru, GEM) Guidelines are classified along 7 semantic axes (indices) (e.g., disorders, therapy, diagnostic findings) The semantic axes, the free text and the structuring created by the markup process are used by a guideline- specific search engine, Vaidurya

3. DeGeL – Digital electronic Guidelines Library The Vaidurya Customizable Query Interface The Current interface is overloaded Different users have – different information needs, –different levels of familiarity with DeGeL –different levels of clinical knowledge

4. DeGeL – Digital electronic Guidelines Library The current interface

5. DeGeL – Digital electronic Guidelines Library Simple search

6. DeGeL – Digital electronic Guidelines Library Advanced Search

7. DeGeL – Digital electronic Guidelines Library Our Solution Each user can customize her own interface, which is a collection of the requested ontology elements and semantic indices. Other users will be able to use the customized interfaces as well.

8. DeGeL – Digital electronic Guidelines Library Creation of a Customized Query Interface

9. DeGeL – Digital electronic Guidelines Library A VCQI example

10. DeGeL – Digital electronic Guidelines Library VisiGuide