Make the Clinical Logic Visible Before You Code
Translate a clinical protocol into explicit inputs, branches, thresholds, exceptions, and failure states before choosing a programming language.
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Translate a clinical protocol into explicit inputs, branches, thresholds, exceptions, and failure states before choosing a programming language.
Clinical protocols reduce avoidable variation, but software must preserve their population boundaries, exceptions, provenance, and judgment points.
Clinical evidence describes populations. Physician-developers must preserve its limits before translating it into protocol logic or software.