Title
Supporting breast cancer decisions using formalized guidelines and experts decision patterns: initial prototype and evaluation.
Abstract
Transparent decisions and its documentation of breast cancer patients' therapy are getting more important especially since modern therapeutic approaches favor personalized forms of treatment. The medical decisions for a treatment are very complex, because there are rules and different options for each patient. To support the decision process, we analyzed the current decision rules and implemented them in a prototype of a rule-based expert system. Thus, this system shall support the quality assurance regarding transparent documentation of individualized therapeutic decisions. For evaluating the system, we used data from a state tumor center and compared the decisions suggested by our system with expert ones. The system and the expert approach will be compared with each other as well as the differences in the treatment decisions. The first preliminary results show us that the human factor-like must be considered by creating a decision support system. The prototype delivers first results, which are restricted, but the results are promising for further developments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/s13755-017-0035-8
Health information science and systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Breast cancer treatment,Decision support,Tumor board
Decision rule,Breast cancer,Computer science,Tumor board,Decision support system,Expert system,Knowledge management,Decision process,Documentation,Quality assurance
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
5
1
2047-2501
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
10
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dennis Andrzejewski100.34
Rüdiger Breitschwerdt2125.10
Michael Fellmann35118.08
Eberhard Beck400.34