Semi-automatic generation of medical tele-expert opinion for primary care physician.
Methods Inf Med
; 42(3): 212-9, 2003.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-12874652
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
A computer-based system has been developed for the generation of medical expert opinions on the insulin-resistance syndrome, based on clinical data obtained from primary care physicians.METHODS:
An expert opinion for each patient was generated by using a decision tree for entering individual text modules and by adding optional free text. The expert opinions were returned by e-mail, telefax or by ordinary mail.RESULTS:
1389 primary care physician sent anonymous data sets and requested expert opinions for a total of 3768 patients. Through the set up of a rule-based system an automation of the generation of the expert opinions could be achieved and the generation time dropped from initially 40 minutes to less than 5 minutes at the end.CONCLUSIONS:
By using predefined text modules and a rule based system, a large number of medical expert opinions can be generated with relatively few additional resources.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Primary Health Care
/
Remote Consultation
/
Decision Support Systems, Clinical
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Europa
Language:
En
Journal:
Methods Inf Med
Year:
2003
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Germany