β Scribed by Fred Wiener
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A system based on the logical relations between a disease and its associated clinical findings is presented. For each disease, the associated clinical findings are separated into smaller units representing successive degrees of diagnostic certainty and consistent with the sequence in which the findings become known. Threshhold logic is used to express the Boolean combinations of findings sufficient for confirming a given diagnostic stage. The diagnostic process in a given area of medicine is formulated in a modular fashion, where each module consists of the conclusion (diagnostic stage or suggested clinical tests) to be reached and the factors (clinical findings or previous conclusions) upon which the conclusion depends. By dividing the often complex and seemingly instinctive inferences used in clinical practice into a series of logical steps which can be formulated for the computer, it is possible to simulate the physician's thought processes in reaching a diagnosis. The system also includes the computer programs to convert the medical logic modules into the corresponding files in computer memory, to allow entry of patient data and to analyze this data and report the appropriate conclusions.
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