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This paper describes the rationale for the structured portion of a medical knowledge representation system which supports browsing, mixed initiative advice, and multi-level reasoning, the IMMEDIATE Representation Language (IRL). The system has been developed in the course a programme to develop decision support and information systems for general practitioners based on intelligent medical record systems. Although various inheritance networks in frame-like formalisms are popular for medical applications, there are few principled accounts of their functions in medical systems. Most existing systems omit important features needed to manage general medical knowledge.
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Rector, A.L. (1987). Knowledge Representation for Cooperative Medical Systems. In: Fox, J., Fieschi, M., Engelbrecht, R. (eds) AIME 87. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 33. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95549-5_12
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