the issue of medical errors is currently a global concern which places a heavy financial and emotional burden on communities. a clinical decision support system (cdss) is an electronic system designed to support clinical decision making. considering the increasing importance and use of systematized nomenclature of medicine-clinical terms (snomed-ct), we developed snomed-ct to implement it more ...

   Background & Objective: Since the clinical and epidemiologic characteristics of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is not well known yet, investigating its origin, etiology, diagnostic criteria, clinical manifestations, risk factors, treatments, and other related aspects is extremely important. In this situation, clinical experts face many uncertainties to make decision about COVID-19 progn...

We describe a data mining model for constructing an optimal diagnostic sequence that assists cost-effective sequential decisions. We use heuristic search, i.e., hill climbing and genetic algorithms (GAs), and the evaluation function of cost-based Mean Accuracy Gain (cMAG), which is provided by SVM classifiers, to find this optimal sequence. GA can find a good sequence because of the ability to ...

Diagnostic decision tree in dementia Diagnostic criteria for dementia include memory impairment plus impairment in at least one other cog-nitive function, including aphasia, apraxia, agnosia, or disturbance in executive functioning. 4 These deficits must represent a decline from a previous level of functioning and be sufficiently severe to cause significant impairment in social or occupational ...

Since primeval times, mankind has attempted to explain natural phenomena using models. For the past four decades, a new kind of modeler, the healthcare informatician, has developed and proliferated a new kind of model, the Clinical Diagnostic Decision Support System (DDSS). Modeling historically was, and still remains, an inexact science. Ptolemy, in the “Almagest,” placed the earth at the cent...