The acute abdomen in emergency with Hypercard.
A non-sequential Bayesian program for diagnosing acute abdominal pain was developed using an Amdahl mainframe accessed by a Texas Instrument remote terminal. Transferring the program to a MacIntosh SE/30 using hypercard was attended by increased utilisation from 15 to 44%.
Harvey
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Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Misericordia Hospital, Winnipeg.
Moodie
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Reda
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Childs
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NJ
Gray
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Samimi
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Thorlakson
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D000006:Abdomen, Acute / Q000209:etiology*; D001499:Bayes Theorem; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D006764:Hospitals, Community; D006801:Humans; D008350:Manitoba; D008838:Microcomputers; D012984:Software