Objective Medical Decision-Making Systems Approach in Disease: Workshop, Crete, Greece, April 30–May 5, 1985 Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages I-VII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Objective Medical Decision Making with Special Reference to Acute Abdominal Pain....Pages 2-6
Expert Systems....Pages 7-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Comparison of Several Discrimination Methods. Application to the Acute Abdominal Pain Diagnosis....Pages 12-18
Teaching Clinical Decision-Making with Computer-Simulated Patients....Pages 19-24
Weights Optimization in a Rule-Based Expert System : An Application to the Diagnosis of Acute Abdominal Pain....Pages 25-30
Experience with Compiling a Diagnostic Database on Acute Abdominal Pain....Pages 31-36
Medical Decision Making — The Patient....Pages 37-42
Summary and Conclusion of the Acute Abdomen Session....Pages 43-45
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
Medical Decision-Making Applied to the Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease....Pages 48-54
Hypertension Management : Connection of an Expert System to the Artemis Patient Database....Pages 55-61
From Clinical Experience to Objective Decision Making in Myocardial Infarction....Pages 62-66
Prognostic Indicators for Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction Complicated by Pump Failure Undergoing Intraaortic Counterpulsation....Pages 67-75
Improved Estimation of Operative Risk After Heart Valve Replacement: Medical Decision-Making Based on Multivariate Logistic Regression Analysis....Pages 76-87
Practical Experience in Provision of Objective Decision Support for Acute Chest Pain in Primary Care....Pages 88-90
Summary and Conclusion of the Cardiovascular Session....Pages 91-92
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
The Torino Liver Project....Pages 94-102
A general hospital diagnostic database on jaundice....Pages 103-107
Differential Diagnosis of Jaundice: A Pocket Diagnostic Chart....Pages 108-113
Statistical Prediction of Diagnosis:Application to Hepatitis....Pages 114-121
Educational use of objective diagnostic methods....Pages 122-126
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Summary and Conclusion of the Jaundice Session....Pages 127-128
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Mathematical Models of Insulin, Ketone Bodies and Glucose Kinetics in Diabetes: Their Use for Understanding and Assessing Metabolism and Its Control....Pages 130-140
Objective Medical Decision-Making in Diabetes....Pages 141-148
Possibilities for Prediction of Blood Glucose and Improvement of Diabetes Control....Pages 149-158
The Glucagon/C-peptide Test in the Discrimination of Insulin-dependent from Non-insulin-dependent Diabetes....Pages 159-165
Diabeta — An Expert System for the Management of Diabetes....Pages 166-174
Summary and Conclusion of the Diabetes Session....Pages 175-176
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
The Mediuc System for Diagnostic Support and Its New Gastroenterological Database....Pages 178-183
Idea — A Consultative System....Pages 184-192
Decision Aid in the General Practitioner’s Office : Myth or Possible Reality?....Pages 193-207
An Expert System for Anemia Diagnosis....Pages 208-214
A Computer Assisted Diagnostic System for Dyspepsia (Gladys)....Pages 215-228
Epilogue....Pages 229-229
Back Matter....Pages 230-230