INTRODUCTION Medical error is often a traumatic experience not only for patients but also for doctors. However, patients as victims get much more publicity than those responsible for actual errors. The authors of the study conducted research to learn about Polish doctors' opinions on and reactions to medical errors and how they affect their further professional activity and psychological status...

OBJECTIVE We describe semantic relation (SR) classification on medical discharge summaries. We focus on relations targeted to the creation of problem-oriented records. Thus, we define relations that involve the medical problems of patients. METHODS AND MATERIALS We represent patients' medical problems with their diseases and symptoms. We study the relations of patients' problems with each oth...

Problem based learning, originally introduced in the Medical School at Mc-Master University in Canada in the late 1960s, and is now being used as a learning method in many medical schools in the United Kingdom and worldwide. Problem based learning have been adapted in many medical colleges of Nepal be used either as the mainstay of an entire curriculum or for the delivery of individual courses....

The development off an intelligent assistance agent f o r diagnostic radiology faces Q a number off challenges: e.g., an how to gain access to the knowledge used i such visual problem solving tasks , how to operationalize it for fur­ an ther processing, and how to present it i the most useful manner for diagnosis. is. an Our previous work i this domain placed an emphasis on the first two issues...

In 1948 the World Health Organisation included alcoholism itself, as distinct from alcoholic psychoses and acute alcohol poisoning, in the International Classification of Disease. Eight years later the American Medical Association declared in a formal statement that alcoholism was a disease, and in 1960 Jellinek' published his influential book The Disease Concept of Alcoholism. These events wer...

Neural networks (NNs) have been successfully applied to solve a variety of application problems involving classification and function approximation. Although backpropagation NNs generally predict better than decision trees do for pattern classification problems, they are often regarded as black boxes, i.e., their predictions cannot be explained as those of decision trees. In many applications, ...

The activities of the 18th century body-snatchers are among the most lurid and entertaining episodes in the history of medicine and have been cataloged exhuastively by scholars and popularizers of all kinds. Today, however, when the ethics of research on humans has become a critical problem in medical philosophy and when relations between the public and the profession appear to be deteriorating...

This study was designed to explore the relationship between certain attributes of a diagnostic problem and a particular information-seeking question. Using case vignettes under experimental conditions, fifty residents in internal medicine and family practice informed the experimenter of the most important thing they would need to know to make a preliminary diagnosis. These data were classified ...