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  • Health Informatics
  • Medical Documentation
  • Formal Methods

Background:

  • Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are critical in healthcare for therapeutic interventions.
  • Ensuring the accuracy and clarity of SOPs is essential for patient safety and effective treatment.
  • Current validation methods may not sufficiently identify all potential ambiguities or omissions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose and evaluate a formal approach for validating the content of therapeutic intervention SOPs.
  • To leverage software verification techniques for improving medical document quality.
  • To enhance the applicability and efficacy of healthcare documents.

Main Methods:

  • Applied a graph formalism-based verification methodology, originally for software specifications, to an SOP.
  • Utilized semi-automatic analysis to detect issues within the document model and original text.
  • Employed an iterative verification process involving authors and specialists for text revision.

Main Results:

  • Identified 23 potential issues in the SOP, including ambiguities, omissions, and inaccuracies.
  • Facilitated a broader consideration of usage scenarios by specialists.
  • Distinguished core instructions from supplementary knowledge within the SOP.

Conclusions:

  • The formal verification process resulted in a more complete and simplified SOP.
  • Experts received a more mature document, allowing focus on technical procedural aspects.
  • Formal methods improve the quality and reliability of medical documentation.