Implementing RECONSIDER, a diagnostic prompting computer system, at the Georgetown University Medical Center.
RECONSIDER, a computer program for diagnostic prompting developed at the University of California, San Francisco, has been implemented at the Georgetown University Medical Center as part of the Integrated Academic Information Management System Model Development grant project supported by the National Library of Medicine. The system is available for student use in the Biomedical Information Resources Center of the Dahlgren Memorial Library. Instruction on use of the computer system is provided by the library and instruction on medical use of the knowledge base is directed by the faculty. The implementation, capabilities, enhancements such as the addition of Current Medical Information and Terminology (5th ed.), and evaluation of the system are reported.
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Biomedical Information Resources Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C. 20007.
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D003200:Computer User Training / Q000379:methods; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004219:District of Columbia; D007256:Information Systems / Q000295:instrumentation; D007993:Libraries, Medical; D012577:Schools, Medical; D012984:Software