Comparison of primary care expert and computer-interpretable depression screening guideline recommendations.

Computer-interpretable guidelines (CIGs) have been reported to increase clinicians inverted exclamation mark usage of guidelines and to improve patient outcomes. We encoded a depression screening guideline using Guideline Interchange Format (GLIF) to transform it into a CIG. We compared primary care (PC) expert and CIG performance on 21 scenarios.completeness of translation were assessed by comparing expert and CIG performance on 21 scenarios.