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How Machine-Readable Clinical Guidelines Can Help Standardize Cancer Care

Guidelines distill the vast body of medical evidence into structured recommendations, helping standardize care across different hospitals and clinicians. These panels review the latest research, debate the evidence, and work to reach consensus on the best approaches to screening, diagnosis, treatment, and supportive care. I used the React Flow library, and built an interface that displayed all the root nodes (the pages that didn’t have incoming references).

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