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Article: New findings from University of Paris in the area of type 2 diabetes described.
- Article from:
- Diabetes Week
- Article date:
- August 24, 2009
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"Clinical guidelines carry medical evidence to the point of practice. As evidence is not always available, many guidelines do not provide recommendations for all clinical situations encountered in practice," investigators in Bobigny, France report (see also Type 2 Diabetes).
"We propose an approach for identifying knowledge gaps in guidelines and for exploring physicians' therapeutic decisions with data mining techniques to fill these knowledge gaps. We demonstrate our method by an example in the domain of type 2 diabetes. We analyzed the French national guidelines for the management of type 2 diabetes to identify clinical conditions that are not covered or those ...