Table 1 .

Terms Used by Guideline Modeling Methodologies to Refer to Plans and Actions*

		Plan component
Model	Plan	Branching	Action	Decision	Scenario	Special	Subplan
Asbru	Plan	Plan type	Plan	Plan precondition			Recursive plan
EON	Management Guideline	Branch Synchronization	Action	Decision	Scenario		Subguideline step
	Consultation Guideline	Consultation— branch	Consultation— action				Consultation guideline part of scenario
GLIF	Guideline, Macro	Branch Synchronization	Action	Decision	Patient-state		Guideline or Macro called in Action or Decision steps
GUIDE	Guideline	Synch-&, Synch-Or	Task	Deterministic decision, non- deterministic decision		Wait Monitor	Any task can be decomposed
PRODIGY	Decision/Management map		Action		Scenario		Subguideline Step or called in Action step
	Consultation Template	Consultation— branch	Consultation— action				Consultation template part of scenario
PROforma	Plan	Action, Enquiry, Decision	Action, Enquiry	Decision			Plan task

*See Dimension 1.