title: Knowledge-based support for a physician's workstation.
abstract: We describe knowledge-based support for a Physician's Workstation prototype. Our knowledge base uses a qualitative simulation model of patient physiology. We present the motivation behind our design, discuss the components of the knowledge base, and show how the knowledge base supports a physician's workstation in the patient management process. We describe a graphical knowledge base editor used by the domain expert for knowledge acquisition, and a graphical knowledge base presenter which monitors the qualitative simulation during patient event processing.
authors.affiliation: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA 94303.
authors.forename: W M
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Stanton
authors.forename: P C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Tang
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003658:Decision Making, Computer-Assisted; D008838:Microcomputers; D008954:Models, Biological