Everything about Flowchart

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: FlowchartA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Computed tomography in traumatic orbital emergencies: a pictorial essay—imaging findings, tips, and report flowchartInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: PROBLEM SOLVING TECHNIQUES-IThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Tokyo Guidelines 2018: flowchart for the management of acute cholecystitisCited 793 times
5. Go sideways: Business process mappingA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Activity diagramA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Tokyo Guidelines 2018: flowchart for the management of acute cholecystitis

  Kohji Okamoto, Kenji Suzuki, Tadahiro Takada · 2017 · Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences · 793 citations

• Tokyo Guidelines 2018: initial management of acute biliary infection and flowchart for acute cholangitis

  Fumihiko Miura, Kohji Okamoto, Tadahiro Takada · 2018 · Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences · 438 citations

• Flowchart techniques for structured programming

  I. Nassi, B. Shneiderman · 1973 · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 324 citations

• Anatomic Single‐ and Double‐Bundle Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Flowchart

  Carola F. van Eck, Bryson P. Lesniak, Verena M. Schreiber · 2010 · Arthroscopy · 280 citations

• TG13 flowchart for the management of acute cholangitis and cholecystitis

  Fumihiko Miura, Tadahiro Takada, Steven M. Strasberg · 2013 · Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences · 215 citations

• Identification of pigments by multispectral imaging; a flowchart method

  Antonino Cosentino · 2014 · Heritage Science · 181 citations

• Weaning from tracheotomy in long-term mechanically ventilated patients: feasibility of a decisional flowchart and clinical outcome

  Piero Ceriana, Annalisa Carlucci, Paolo Navalesi · 2003 · Intensive Care Medicine · 110 citations

• Applying an online game-based formative assessment in a flowchart-based intelligent tutoring system for improving problem-solving skills

  Danial Hooshyar, Rodina Binti Ahmad, Moslem Yousefi · 2016 · Computers & Education · 93 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Computed tomography in traumatic orbital emergencies: a pictorial essay—imaging findings, tips, and report flowchart

  Michaela Cellina, Maurizio Cè, Sara Marziali · 2022 · Insights into Imaging · 52 citations

• Multidisciplinary Approach to Spinal Metastases and Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression—A New Integrative Flowchart for Patient Management

  Miguel Esperança-Martins, Diogo Roque, Tiago Barroso · 2023 · Cancers · 48 citations

• Flowchart for Implementing Advanced Imaging and Electrophysiology in Patients With Disorders of Consciousness

  Martin Max Monti, Caroline Schnakers · 2022 · Neurology · 39 citations

• Flow augmentation STA-MCA bypass evaluation for patients with acute stroke and unilateral large vessel occlusion: a proposal for an urgent bypass flowchart

  Martina Sebök, Giuseppe Esposito, Christiaan Hendrik Bas van Niftrik · 2022 · Journal of Neurosurgery · 25 citations

• Focal electroclinical features in generalized tonic–clonic seizures: Decision flowchart for a diagnostic challenge

  Maria Vlachou, Philippe Ryvlin, Sidsel Armand Larsen · 2024 · Epilepsia · 19 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• PROBLEM SOLVING TECHNIQUES-I · 2025
• From Zero to Visual · 2026
• BASIC exercises for the AtariJean-Pierre Lamoitier · 1983
• Sanskrit Grammar and Reference BookProf. Ratnakar Narale · 2013
• 33 challenging computer games for TRS-80/Apple/PETDavid Chance · 1981

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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