[An expert clinical diagnosis system for the support of the primary consultation]. 1993

J Rozenbojm, and E Palladino, and A C Azevedo
Servicios de Salud, Sistemas de Computación, IBM-Brasil.

In Brazil, as in other Latin American countries, there was a sharp increase in the number of medical schools in the past 20 years. The result was a steep increase in the number of physicians. These professionals are in many cases, however, poorly trained. As a consequence, public, as well as private health services, are exposed to professionals of great diversity of qualification. Few effective solutions have been proposed for this health services management problem. This paper presents a potential solution. It exposes preliminary results of field tests of an Expert System based on the first author's (Rozenbojm) three decades of experiences as a clinician, and medical residency advisor. The system was developed using ESE IBM Expert Systems language and a mainframe hardware. It was designed to support diagnosis based only in anamnesis and physical examination data, without lab or X ray support. Its original purpose was to increase the primary care physician's diagnostic and therapeutic accuracy. An initial test with specialist panels (endocrinology, cardiology, nephrology, G.O., gastroenterology, pediatrics and pneumology) revealed spell out a diagnostic and therapeutic concordance rate over 95 percent (based on real everyday practice cases brought by the specialists). A second test was performed in a private Health Care Network, at primary care level. In this case, concordance rate was over 83 percent in diagnostic aspects and 95 percent in the clinical orientation aspects. This expert system may be very useful for Health Services providing, first encounter standardization, medical graduate basic education and cost containment. The next proposed steps includes transcription of the software for personal computer utilization and an evaluation of its economic impacts.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D012017 Referral and Consultation The practice of sending a patient to another program or practitioner for services or advice which the referring source is not prepared to provide. Consultation,Gatekeepers, Health Service,Hospital Referral,Second Opinion,Consultation and Referral,Health Service Gatekeepers,Hospital Referrals,Referral,Referral, Hospital,Referrals, Hospital,Consultations,Gatekeeper, Health Service,Health Service Gatekeeper,Opinion, Second,Opinions, Second,Referrals,Second Opinions
D001938 Brazil A country located on the eastern coast of South America, located between Colombia and Peru, that borders the Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered on the north by Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana, on the south by Uruguay, and on the west by Argentina. The capital is Brasilia.
D003936 Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted Application of computer programs designed to assist the physician in solving a diagnostic problem. Computer-Assisted Diagnosis,Computer Assisted Diagnosis,Computer-Assisted Diagnoses,Diagnoses, Computer-Assisted,Diagnosis, Computer Assisted
D005103 Expert Systems Computer programs based on knowledge developed from consultation with experts on a problem, and the processing and/or formalizing of this knowledge using these programs in such a manner that the problems may be solved. Expert System,System, Expert,Systems, Expert
D006751 Hospital Information Systems Integrated, computer-assisted systems designed to store, manipulate, and retrieve information concerned with the administrative and clinical aspects of providing medical services within the hospital. Multi-Hospital Information Systems,Information System, Hospital,Information System, Multihospital,Information Systems, Hospital,Information Systems, Multihospital,Multihospital Information Systems,Hospital Information System,Information System, Multi-Hospital,Information Systems, Multi-Hospital,Multi Hospital Information Systems,Multi-Hospital Information System,Multihospital Information System
D006785 Hospitals, University Hospitals maintained by a university for the teaching of medical students, postgraduate training programs, and clinical research. University Hospitals
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000328 Adult A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available. Adults
D001185 Artificial Intelligence Theory and development of COMPUTER SYSTEMS which perform tasks that normally require human intelligence. Such tasks may include speech recognition, LEARNING; VISUAL PERCEPTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; reasoning, PROBLEM SOLVING, DECISION-MAKING, and translation of language. AI (Artificial Intelligence),Computer Reasoning,Computer Vision Systems,Knowledge Acquisition (Computer),Knowledge Representation (Computer),Machine Intelligence,Computational Intelligence,Acquisition, Knowledge (Computer),Computer Vision System,Intelligence, Artificial,Intelligence, Computational,Intelligence, Machine,Knowledge Representations (Computer),Reasoning, Computer,Representation, Knowledge (Computer),System, Computer Vision,Systems, Computer Vision,Vision System, Computer,Vision Systems, Computer

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