Research Catalog

Title

Clinical decision support systems : theory and practice / Eta S. Berner, editor, with a foreword by Marion J. Ball.

Publication

New York : Springer, c1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

Berner, Eta S., 1946-

Description

xx, 264 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

• This book is designed to be a resource for informatics specialists, a textbook for teachers or students, and a comprehensive introduction for clinicians who are interested in learning about the current developments in computer-based diagnostic systems. The chapter authors are recognized worldwide as experts on the design, evaluation, and application of such systems.
• The book includes an overview of diagnostic computer applications, past, present, and future, and the authors examine the impact of practitioner and patient use of computer-based tools.

Series Statement

Health informatics series

Uniform Title

Health informatics.

Subjects

• Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted
• Expert systems (Computer science)
• Decision Support Systems, Clinical
• Clinical medicine > Decision making > Data processing
• Diagnosis > Decision making > Data processing
• Expert Systems

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pt. I. Development and Evaluation of Clinical Diagnostic Decision Support Systems. 1. Clinical Diagnostic Decision Support Systems: An Overview / Randolph A. Miller and Antoine Geissbuhler. 2. Mathematical Foundations of Decision Support Systems / S. Andrew Spooner. 3. Testing System Accuracy / Eta S. Berner -- Pt. II. Applications of Clinical Diagnostic Decision Support Systems. 4. Hospital-Based Decision Support / Peter J. Haug, Reed M. Gardner and R. Scott Evans. 5. Medical Education Applications / Michael J. Lincoln. 6. Decision Support for Patients / Holly Brugge Jimison and Paul Phillip Sher -- Pt. III. Future Development of Clinical Diagnostic Decision Support Systems. 7. Design and Implementation Issues / Jerome H. Carter. 8. Clinical Trials of Information Interventions / E. Andrew Balas and Suzanne Austin Boren. 9. Ethical and Legal Issues in Decision Support / Kenneth W. Goodman -- App. Examples of Internet Resources for Patients.

ISBN

0387985751 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

98021883 //r98

OCLC

• ocm39202454
• SCSB-4786235

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries