Publications by authors named "Haitham Maarouf"
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak
December 2017
Article Synopsis
- This work addresses the challenge of interpreting electronic rating scales used in clinical settings by creating a prototype for the Scale of the Assessment and Rating of Ataxia (SARA), applying concepts from OpenEHR clinical archetypes and ontologies.
- A simplified version of the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) was developed to standardize and normalize SARA test data, enhancing the ability to reason about the clinical information collected.
- The prototype, named SARA Management System, demonstrated good reliability in assessing cerebellar syndrome, achieving a weighted kappa score of 0.62 to 0.86 when compared to expert evaluations, indicating it can effectively automate knowledge extraction from clinical rating scales.
