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In the primary medical care sector, an expert consultation system for diagnosis and treatment recommendation has to face a specific situation: in the initial consultation the patient presents a very unspecific collection of subjective findings, the availability of diagnostic procedures is very limited, the physician usually concludes a ‘suspected diagnosis,’ but he has to decide on correct therapy, including the decisions ‘wait and do nothing,’ ‘send patient to hospital immediately,’ and ‘send patient for special examination.’ The system must take care of follow-up visits, follow the course of disease(s), and supervise the therapeutic effects and side effects, perhaps revising the initial diagnosis in the light of new manifestations and therapeutic outcomes.
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Horn, W., Buchstaller, W., Trappl, R. (1985). Knowledge Structure Definition for an Expert System in Primary Medical Care. In: Reggia, J.A., Tuhrim, S. (eds) Computer-Assisted Medical Decision Making. Computers and Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5108-8_13
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