A conceptualisation of an agent-oriented triage decision support system

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 295 CCIS, Issue , 2012, Pages 272-282

  Halim, Shamimi ^a   Annamalai, Muthukaruppan ^a   Ahmad, Mohd Sharifuddin ^b   Ahmad, Rashidi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

^b Universiti Tenaga Nasional   (Malaysia)

^c SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

BDI; Clinical Decision Support System; Emergency department; Multi agent system; Triage Assessment

Indexed keywords

BDI; CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEM (MAS); TRIAGE ASSESSMENT;

HOSPITALS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; TECHNOLOGY;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84865605365     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32826-8_28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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