A decision theoretic approach to empirical treatment of bacteraemia originating from the urinary tract

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1620, Issue , 1999, Pages 197-206

  Andreassen, Steen ^a   Leibovici, Leonard ^b   Schønheyder, Henrik C ^c   Kristensen, Brian ^c   Riekehr, Christian ^a   Kjær, Anders Geill ^a   Olesen, Kristian G ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BACTERIOLOGY; COSTS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; ECOLOGY; MEDICINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIBIOTIC TREATMENT; BROAD SPECTRUM ANTIBIOTICS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM (DSS); DECISION THEORETIC APPROACH; ECOLOGICAL COSTS; PROBABILISTIC NETWORK;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 22644449230     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48720-4_21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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