Individualizing generic decision models using assessments as evidence

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 281-297

  Scott, George C ^a   Shachter, Ross D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision support; Evidence based reasoning; Expert systems; Healthcare preferences; Influence diagrams; Medical decision making; Noisy sensors; Patient education; Real time systems

Indexed keywords

EXPERT SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

GENERIC DECISIONS; INTERACTIVE APPROACH; SPECIFIC PARAMETER VALUES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DEMOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; PARAMETER; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 23244468489     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2004.12.003     Document Type: Article

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