CPGmap: Visualization for Clinical practice guideline

To achieve medical beneficences, the decision of physicians is important to be guided by an evidence-based clinical practice guideline. A guideline is established through an evidence reviewing process, which provides an expertise to deal with patients. Above all, CPGs can assist physicians to take good clinical practices on their patients and let patients deliver good medical cares. According to the overall healthcare improvements, the quality can be reserved and practice discrepancy and errors can be eliminated. There are many barriers in implementing guidelines, including gaps and inconsistencies, inertia associated with traditional practice behavior and lack of incentives to change, etc…… In addition to these non-technical issues, accessible guideline content at the point care is critical; searching pages of text to locate a recommendation for a patient is very in-convenient and in-efficient A way to ease the use of guidelines and display is to implement computerized and visualized guidelines. We present a method of computerizing and visualizing guideline. Our CPGmap is based on java combined with the techniques of CPG guide and tree map.