Development of a decision algorithm to support emergency triage of scrotal pain and its implementation in the met system

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Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 287-301

  Michalowski, Wojtek ^a   Wilk, Szymon ^b   Farion, Ken ^c   Pike, John ^c   Rubin, Steven ^c   Słowińsk, Roman ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acute scrotum; Clinical decision support system; Decision algorithm; Knowledge discovery; Mobile health; Ontological model; Rough set theory

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; SET THEORY;

CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DECISION ALGORITHM; MOBILE HEALTH; ONTOLOGICAL MODEL;

HOSPITALS;

EID: 30344458837     PISSN: 03155986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03155986.2005.11732731     Document Type: Article

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