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Table 6 Studies that compared ontologies and other data models in specification and implementation

From: Ontological specification of quality of chronic disease data in EHRs to support decision analytics: a realist review

References

Research findings

Results of ontology implemented for data quality

Compare with non-ontology

Context

(Maragoudakis et al. 2008)

A tool in hierarchical Bayesian networks which can encode a domain and make prediction

Data mining classification

By using precision and recall metrics, show ontology approach is more accurate than Linear Programming in the monitoring of patients

COPD

 

No DQ

 

(Mabotuwana and Warren 2009)

Enhance and facilitate temporal querying requirements in general practice medicine

Facilitate temporal querying requirements

Represent only some limitations of traditional SQL-based approach to show flexibility of ontology in easily add any requirement in ontology queries

CVD (hypertension)