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In pharmaceutical industry, each new drug is tested in clinical studies before it is released on the market. Any adverse event occurring in such a study requires a difficult decision: Is the event caused by the drug under investigation or by other factors? The human decision maker trying to answer this question faces a complex problem and must consider a multitude of heterogeneous data and numerous knowledge sources. IDEAS is an intelligent documentation system (IDS) that supports this type of complex decision making. It provides (a) a model of expertise from which all relevant data and knowledge sources can be easily accessed and (b) an action event model which documents the results of the decision process. The IDEAS system is designed as a hypertext application implemented in a spreadsheet environment. The combination of the model of expertise with the’ spreadsheet Metaphor’ aims to overcome well-known problems of hypertexts, such as ‘disorientation’, ‘cognitive overload’ and ‘overchoice’.
IDEAS stands for ‘Intelligent Documentation for the Explanation of Adverse events in clinical Studies’. This work is financially supported by the division of clinical research and quality assurance of the Hoechst AG Frankfurt. We would like to thank K. M. Aschenbrenner, O. Kühn and J. Schmidt for their contributions. Willi Schmitz assisted in implementing the described user-interface.
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Birk, A., Tschaitschian, B., Schmalhofer, F., Thüring, M., Gertzen, H. (1995). Architecture and User Interface of the IDEAS Intelligent Documentation System. In: Schuler, W., Hannemann, J., Streitz, N. (eds) Designing User Interfaces for Hypermedia. Research Reports ESPRIT, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45743-2_9
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