Name
Title | ||
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A concept-based framework for retrieving evidence to support emergency physician decision making at the point of care |
Abstract | ||
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The goal of evidence-based medicine is to uniformly apply evidence gained from scientific research to aspects of clinical practice. In order to achieve this goal, new applications that integrate increasingly disparate health care information resources are required. Access to and provision of evidence must be seamlessly integrated with existing clinical workflow and evidence should be made available where it is most often required - at the point of care. In this paper we address these requirements and outline a concept-based framework that captures the context of a current patient-physician encounter by combining disease and patient-specific information into a logical query mechanism for retrieving relevant evidence from the Cochrane Library. Returned documents are organized by automatically extracting concepts from the evidence-based query to create meaningful clusters of documents which are presented in a manner appropriate for point of care support. The framework is currently being implemented as a prototype software agent that operates within the larger context of a multi-agent application for supporting workflow management of emergency pediatric asthma exacerbations. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2007 | 10.1007/978-3-540-78624-5_9 | artificial intelligence in medicine in europe |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
disparate health care information,evidence-based query,concept-based framework,evidence-based medicine,larger context,logical query mechanism,relevant evidence,emergency physician decision,clinical workflow,care support,retrieving evidence,clinical practice,point of care,information retrieval,scientific research,clinical decision support,evidence based medicine,workflow management,software agent | Health care,Data mining,Point of care,Computer science,Physician Decision,Software agent,Knowledge management,Clinical decision support system,Relevance (law),Workflow,Evidence-based medicine | Conference |
Volume | ISSN | Citations |
4924 | 0302-9743 | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 7 | 5 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dympna O'Sullivan | 1 | 45 | 11.29 |
| Ken Farion | 2 | 106 | 12.61 |
| Stan Matwin | 3 | 3025 | 344.20 |
| Wojtek Michalowski | 4 | 266 | 41.48 |
| Szymon Wilk | 5 | 461 | 40.94 |