A user-friendly decision support tool to assist one-health risk assessors

Facilitation Tool – A Tool to Assist Facilitators Managing Group Decision Support Systems

This paper describes the Facilitation Tool, a tool built to untangle two problems that we find in current Group Decision Support Systems. If we want to allow facilitators manage such systems with success, then a planning functionality more detailed than the currently available is necessary. We also found very limited support to remote facilitation. Several notions concerning decision-making and...

Focussing User Studies: Requirements Capture for a Decision Support Tool

We are designing an innovative decision support tool to assist radiologists in the evaluation of brain tumours. The system combines Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) and pattern recognition techniques to provide radiologists with additional information about brain tumours. Initial user studies involved workplace interviews, software prototyping, and multidisciplinary design discussions. We ...

InterQual® Behavioral Health Decision Support Tool

A user-friendly mathematical modelling web interface to assist local decision making in the fight against drug-resistant tuberculosis

Multidrug-resistant and rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (MDR/RR-TB) represent an important challenge for global tuberculosis (TB) control. The high rates of MDR/RR-TB observed among re-treatment cases can arise from diverse pathways: de novo amplification during initial treatment, inappropriate treatment of undiagnosed MDR/RR-TB, relapse despite appropriate treatment, or reinfection with MDR/...

Mapping health in the Great Lakes areas of concern: a user-friendly tool for policy and decision makers.

The role of the physical environment as a determinant of health is a major concern reported by the general public as well as by many policymakers. However, it remains one of the health determinants for which few available measures or indicators are readily available. This lack of data is compounded by the fact that evidence for direct cause-and-effect relationships in the literature is often eq...