Enhancing patient-centered palliative care with collaborative agents

Proceedings - 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops, WI-IAT 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 356-360

  Ruan, Ji ^a   MacCaull, Wendy ^a   Jewers, Heather ^a  

^a StFX University   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agent based modelling; Collaboration; Palliative care; Patient centred healthcare; Team approach

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED MODELLING; COLLABORATION; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT-CENTRED HEALTHCARE; TEAM APPROACH;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 78649817946     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WI-IAT.2010.259     Document Type: Conference Paper

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