Using artificial intelligence to bring evidence-based medicine a step closer to making the individual difference

Medical Informatics and the Internet in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 11-18

  Sissons, B ^a   Gray, W A ^a   Bater, A ^b   Morrey, D ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Velindre NHS Trust   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; EVALUATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; MACHINE LEARNING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; ONCOLOGY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; PATIENT CARE; UNITED KINGDOM; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; PATIENT CARE; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 34247142000     PISSN: 14639238     EISSN: 14645246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14639230601097804     Document Type: Article

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