Behind the screens: Clinical decision support methodologies - A review

Health Policy and Technology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 29-38

  Fraccaro, Paolo ^a   O'Sullivan, Dympna ^a   Plastiras, Panagiotis ^a   O'Sullivan, Hugh ^b   Dentone, Chiara ^c,d   Di Biagio, Antonio ^e   Weller, Peter ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^d Sanremo Hospital   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clinical decision support systems; Knowledge representation; Machine learning; Text mining; Visualization techniques

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; COMPUTER; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA MINING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DECISION TREE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FUZZY LOGIC; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MACHINE LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; ONTOLOGY; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

EID: 84923012752     PISSN: 22118837     EISSN: 22118845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hlpt.2014.10.001     Document Type: Review

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