title: [Clinical laboratory and expert system].
abstract: Computer-based expert systems are designed to incorporate the knowledge of a human expert such that the computer program will solve problems in a manner similar to the human expert. The systems can be applied fruitfully to many phases of the laboratory testing, including order entry, specimen collection, analysis, result verification, and reporting. Interpretive reporting by means of expert systems is useful for influencing physician's use of laboratory and they offer potential help for clinical decision making. Although much of the early work in the clinical laboratory involved stand-alone expert systems, approaches that integrate more closely with laboratory information system or hospital information system are being used. A short review on the technology of expert system with an emphasis on the roles played by clinical laboratory is made. A trial system dealing with thyroid diseases, based on interpretation of hormonal levels (TSH, Total and Free T3, T4), is described.
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine, Asahikawa Medical College.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Makino
mesh_terms: D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques; D005103:Expert Systems; D006801:Humans; D013959:Thyroid Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis