Title Page -- Contents -- Overviews -- Practice guidelines and healthcare telematics: towards an alliance -- Clinical practice should reflect clinical science -- Informatics for Care Protocols and Guidelines: Towards a European Knowledge Model -- Primary Care -- Computerized Guidelines for Preventative Care in General Practice -- Computerised Guidelines In Primary Health Care: Reflections And Implications -- Knowledge engineering for drug prescribing guidelines -- Computerized Assessment with Primary Care Guidelines in the Netherlands -- Primary Care Guidelines from an organizational point of view -- From Guidelines to Decision Support in the Management of Asthma -- Secondary and Shared Care -- Act Management and Clinical Guidelines -- Quality Assurance in Clinical Neurophysiology: the ESTEEM project example -- The Development of Protocols to Cover Clinical Care in Cardiology -- Protocol-Directed Shared Care in Cardiology -- Telematics and Protocols of Care in Critical Care Environments -- Disseminating Quality Care for Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer -- Knowledge Engineering and Methodology -- Guideline Based Care: The Challenge for Knowledge Based Decision Support -- A model for the structured description of healthcare activities and related data -- Prescription Guidelines in OPADE: what are they, how are they used? -- Integrating guidelines and the clinical record: the role of semantically constrained terminologies -- Framework for quality assessment of knowledge) -- Select Bibliography -- AUTHOR INDEX