Objective Medical Decision-Making Systems Approach in Disease

Dimitris D. Tsiftsis

ISBN 10: 3540161007 / ISBN 13: 9783540161004

Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg Feb 1986, 1986

About this Item

This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -InhaltsangabeKeynote papers.- Objective medical decision making with special reference to acute abdominal pain.- Expert systems.- Acute abdomen.- Comparison of several discrimination methods. Application to the acute abdominal pain diagnosis.- Teaching clinical decision-making with computer-simulated patients.- Weights optimization in a rule-based expert system: An application to the diagnosis of acute abdominal pain.- Experience with compiling a diagnostic database on acute abdominal pain.- Medical decision making - the patient.- Summary and conclusion of the acute abdomen session.- Cardiovascular disease - myocardial infarct.- Medical decision-making applied to the diagnosis of coronary artery disease.- Hypertension management: Connection of an expert system to the ARTEMIS patient database.- From clinical experience to objective decision making in myocardial infarction.- Prognostic indicators for patients with acute myocardial infarction complicated by pump failure undergoing intraaortic counterpulsation.- Improved estimation of operative risk after heart valve replacement: Medical decision-making based on multivariate logistic regression analysis.- Practical experience in provision of objective decision support for acute chest pain in primary care.- Summary and conclusion of the cardiovascular session.- Jaundice.- The Torino liver project.- A general hospital diagnostic database on jaundice.- Differential diagnosis of jaundice: A pocket diagnostic chart Copenhagen Computer Icterus Group.- Statistical prediction of diagnosis: Application to hepatitis.- Educational use of objective diagnostic methods.- Summary and conclusion of the jaundice session.- Diabetes.- Mathematical models of insulin, ketone bodies and glucose kinetics in diabetes: Their use for understanding and assessing metabolism and its control.- Objective medical decision-making in diabetes.- Possibilities for prediction of blood glucose and improvement of diabetes control.- The glucagon/C-peptide test in the discrimination of insulin-dependent from non-insulin-dependent diabetes.- Diabeta - An expert system for the management of diabetes.- Summary and conclusion of the diabetes session.- Generalist systems.- The MEDIUC system for diagnostic support and its new gastroenterological database.- Idea - A consultative system.- Decision aid in the general practitioner's office: Myth or possible reality .- An expert system for anemia diagnosis.- A computer assisted diagnostic system for dyspepsia (Gladys).- Epilogue. 244 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Objective Medical Decision-Making Systems Approach in Disease
• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg Feb 1986
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540161007
• ISBN 13: 9783540161004
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 244W x 170H x 14D millimeters 244 millimeters width by 170 millimeters height by 14 millimeters depth
• Weight: 429 grams