title: SCOUT: information retrieval from full-text medical literature.
abstract: SCOUT is an expert system designed to aid the practicing physician in searching a full-text database of biomedical literature for information in the domain of oncology. In the clinical setting, an information-retrieval system needs to provide only a few relevant documents that address a patient-specific query. SCOUT models the expertise of an oncologist and an information specialist in a probabilistic inference system; it applies expert heuristics both in selecting the best source of information for a particular question and in developing an effective, source-specific search statement that retrieves only a minimal number of pertinent documents.
authors: Section on Medical Informatics, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305-5479.
authors: G P
authors: GP
authors: Purcell
authors: D D
authors: DD
authors: Mar
mesh_terms: D005103:Expert Systems; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D007256:Information Systems; D008495:Medical Oncology; D014584:User-Computer Interface