문서 라우팅 기법을 이용한 간호진단 과정에서의 정보접근

Applying document routing mode of information access in nursing diagnosis process

Nursing diagnosis process is described as nurses assessing the patients' conditions by applying reasoning and looking for patterns, which fit the defining characteristics of one or more diagnoses. This process is similar to using a typical document retrieval system if we consider the patients' conditions as queries, nursing diagnoses as documents, and the defining characteristics as index terms of the documents. However, there is a small fixed number of nursing diagnoses and infinite number of patients' conditions in a typical hospital setting. This state is more suitable to applying document routing mode of information access, which is defined as a number of archived profiles, compared to individual documents. In this paper, we describe a ROUting-based Nursing Diagnosis (ROUND) system and its Natural Language Processing-based query processing component, which converts the defining characteristics of nursing diagnoses into query representations.