A knowledge-based approach to design of intervention strategies for incidents

Presents a knowledge-based approach for design of intervention strategies for clinical incidents, which helps medical professionals explore opportunities for care quality improvement. The approach consists of two processes: incident analysis and intervention advice. Given a specific clinical incident description, the proposed approach enables the identification of underlying problems in the incident and the suggestion of appropriate intervention strategies that can be implemented to prevent repetitions of similar incidents. Case-based reasoning (CBR) and rule-based reasoning (RBR) are applied to generate intervention strategies by adapting ones applied to previous incidents and/or using generalised rule-based knowledge for interventions