A study of PROforma, a development methodology for clinical procedures

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 195-221

  Vollebregt, Arjen ^a   Ten Teije, Annette ^a   Van Harmelen, Frank ^a   Van Der Lei, Johan ^b   Mosseveld, Mees ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Development methodologies; KADS; Knowledge based systems; PROforma; Protocol based medical systems

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING;

CLINICAL REASONING;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICINE; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033214056     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0933-3657(99)00016-0     Document Type: Article

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