Communication of uncertainty in clinical genetics patient health communication systems

AAAI Fall Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn FS-04-04, Issue , 2004, Pages 36-43

  Green, Nancy ^a   Britt, Tarai ^a   Jirak, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HYBRID COMPUTERS; PATIENT MONITORING; PROBABILITY;

CLINICAL GENETICS; GENETIC COUNSELING PATIENT LETTERS; PATIENT HEALTH COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY VALUES;

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT;

EID: 32844470451     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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