A CONTROLLED EVALUATION OF DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A RHEUMATOLOGY EXPERT SYSTEM

A CONTROLLED EVALUATION OF DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A RHEUMATOLOGY EXPERT SYSTEM

As an intermediate stage in the development of an expert system to support undergraduate teaching in rheumatology, a decision tree incorporating the diagnostic criteria to be used in the expert system was produced by a team of rheumatologists. In a controlled trial, 119 final-year medical students e...

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Veröffentlicht in:Rheumatology (Oxford, England) England), 1989-02, Vol.28 (1), p.13-17
Hauptverfasser: McCREA, J. D., McCREDIE, MARGARET R. E., McSHERRY, D. M. G., BROOKS, P. M.
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Sprache:eng
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Decision tree
Diagnosis
Expert system
Medical education
Rheumatology
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Zusammenfassung:As an intermediate stage in the development of an expert system to support undergraduate teaching in rheumatology, a decision tree incorporating the diagnostic criteria to be used in the expert system was produced by a team of rheumatologists. In a controlled trial, 119 final-year medical students each diagnosed 10 rheumatology cases, drawn from a pool of 96 cases, with or without the aid of the decision tree. Students who used the decision tree correctly diagnosed the following conditions more frequently than the control group: polymyalgia rheumatica (p
ISSN:1462-0324
1462-0332
DOI:10.1093/rheumatology/28.1.13