title: The acute abdomen in emergency with Hypercard.
abstract: 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%.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Misericordia Hospital, Winnipeg.
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Harvey
authors.forename: P F
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: Moodie
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Reda
authors.forename: N J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Childs
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gray
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Samimi
authors.forename: D P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Thorlakson
mesh_terms: 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