A causal probabilistic network for optimal treatment of bacterial infections

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 517-528

  Leibovici, Leonard ^a   Fishman, Michal ^a   Schønheyder, Henrik C ^b   Riekehr, Christian ^c   Kristensen, Brian ^b   Shraga, Ilana ^a   Andreassen, Steen ^d  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c HUGIN EXPERT A S   (Denmark)

^d AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Antibiotic treatment; Bacteremia; Bacterial infections; Causal probabilistic networks; Cost effectiveness

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MEDICAL COMPUTING; PATIENT TREATMENT; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ANTIBIOTIC TREATMENT; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CAUSAL PROBABILISTIC NETWORK; CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY TABLES; FATALITY RATE;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0034215508     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/69.868905     Document Type: Article

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