Abstract

This Uganda Standard specifies the requirements for developing a knowledge base for drug-related problems that cohere with the intended drug use, to be used in rule-based clinical decision support systems (CDSS), such as the criteria for selecting a raw data source and the quality criteria for the development and maintenance for the rules or clinical rules for drug safety. It also describes the process of how to develop a knowledge base, the topics to be considered by the developers of a knowledge base, and it gives guidance on how to do this. This document gives guidelines for the development of a knowledge base: ? with rules to enhance decisions and actions in drug-related problems that cohere with the intended drug use; ? which can be used by all kinds of healthcare professionals, such as those who prescribe, dispense, administer or monitor medicines; ? which can be used in every care setting, including chronic and acute care, primary and specialized care; ? which is a repository of evidence/practice bases rules, assessed by experts; ? which is meant to be used in conjunction with a medicinal product dictionary; ? whose knowledge is structured in rules and therefore to be used in the type of rule-based CDSS. ? This document does not: ? describe the exact content of a knowledge base i.e. the outcome of the process of developing rules. ? provide the requirements for a clinical decision support system, the software that uses the knowledge base combined with the patient`s data, and presents the outcome of the rules to the healthcare professional. These requirements are described in ISO/DTS 22703[1]. This standard was published on 24 May 2023.