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Book SynopsisComputer technology has impacted the practice of medicine in dramatic ways. In many cases, these appli cations are limited to administrative functions, e.g., office practice man agement, location of hospital patients, appointments, and scheduling.
Table of Contentsfor Volume 1.- I. Introduction.- 1. An Overview of Methods for Computer-Assisted Medical Decision Making.- 2. Reasoning Foundations of Medical Diagnosis.- II. Algorithmic Approaches.- 3. Computer-Based Consultation: Electrolyte and Acid-Base Disorders.- 4. Reduction of Digitalis Toxicity by Computer-Assisted Glycoside Dosage Regimens.- 5. A Consultant-Extender System for Breast Cancer Adjuvant Chemotherapy.- III. Statistically Oriented Approaches.- 6. A Mathematical Approach to Medical Diagnosis: Application to Congenital Heart Disease.- 7. Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Acute Abdominal Pain.- 8. Computer-Assisted Diagnosis of Abdominal Pain Using “Estimates” Provided by Clinicians.- 9. Bayes’ Theorem and Conditional Nonindependence of Data in Medical Diagnosis.- 10. Transferability of Medical Decision Support Systems Based on Bayesian Classification.- 11. Experience with a Model of Sequential Diagnosis.- 12. Pattern-Based Interactive Diagnosis of Multiple Disorders: The MEDAS System.- 13. Enhancement of Clinical Predictive Ability by Computer Consultation.- 14. Decision Analysis and Clinical Judgment.
