Title
A conceptualisation of an Agent-Oriented Triage Decision Support System
Abstract
Triage is a complex process in ED that necessitates accurate, consistent and timely decision for assessment and management of incoming patients. With triage officers having different levels of expertise and experience, the triage scales are applied inconsistently, as evident from the lack of uniformity in the existing triaging system in Malaysian hospitals. In many hospitals, the triaging largely occurs in an ad hoc basis, placing patients at risk and contributing to inefficient resource utilisation. A computer system can be used to overcome these problems. Consequently, the paper proposes the development of a knowledge-based, agent-oriented decision support system for triage assessment and management. The ability to implement goal-directed behaviour, communicative processes and schedule-oriented, but concurrently executed tasks among others, make the agent technology suitable to be applied. We intend to adopt a modelling view to knowledge engineering, and plan to use the CommonKADS methodology as a basis for knowledge engineering, modelling and knowledge base development.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-32826-8_28
Communications in Computer and Information Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Multi-agent system,BDI,Clinical Decision Support System,Triage Assessment,Emergency department
Emergency department,Decision support system,Knowledge management,Multi-agent system,Knowledge engineering,Triage,Knowledge base,Clinical decision support system,Medicine
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
295
1865-0929
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
8
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shamimi A. Halim141.49
Muthukaruppan Annamalai21168.04
Mohd Sharifuddin Ahmad318934.38
Rashidi Ahmad441.49