Towards automated medical decisions

✍ Scribed by Malcolm A. Gleser; Morris F. Collen

• Book ID: 103050401
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1972
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 648 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-4809
• DOI: 10.1016/0010-4809(72)90080-8

✦ Synopsis

A computer algorithm is presented which will automatically develop a branched testing sequence to aid in medical decision making. The sequence is developed using the symptoms and test results of previously diagnosed patients. Data from one year of Kaiser-Permanente multiphasic screening program were used to demonstrate the technique for identifying patients with previously unrecognized diabetes mellitus. The branched testing sequence and two possible decision rules are presented.