ADDIS: A decision support system for evidence-based medicine

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 459-475

  Van Valkenhoef, Gert ^a,b   Tervonen, Tommi ^c   Zwinkels, Tijs ^b   De Brock, Bert ^b   Hillege, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clinical trial; Data model; Decision analysis; Evidence synthesis; Evidence based medicine

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; DECISION MODELS; DECISION PROCESS; DECISION SUPPORTS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; MEDICAL TREATMENT; SAFETY EVALUATIONS; UNIFYING DATA MODELS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA STRUCTURES; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; EXPERIMENTS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MODELS; OPEN SYSTEMS;

AGGREGATES;

EID: 84878239536     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2012.10.005     Document Type: Article

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