Health Informatics — Requirements for a knowledge base for clinical decision support systems to be used in medication-related processes

This document specifies the requirements for developing a knowledge base for drug-related problems that cohere with the intended drug use, to be used in rule-based clinical decision support systems (CDSS), such as the criteria for selecting a raw data source and the quality criteria for the development and maintenance for the rules or clinical rules for drug safety. It also describes the process of how to develop a knowledge base, the topics to be considered by the developers of a knowledge base, and it gives guidance on how to do this.

This document gives guidelines for the development of a knowledge base:

— with rules to enhance decisions and actions in drug-related problems that cohere with the intended drug use;

— which can be used by all kinds of healthcare professionals, such as those who prescribe, dispense, administer or monitor medicines;

— which can be used in every care setting, including chronic and acute care, primary and specialized care;

— which is a repository of evidence/practice bases rules, assessed by experts;

— which is meant to be used in conjunction with a medicinal product dictionary;

— whose knowledge is structured in rules and therefore to be used i