title: HTN-APT: computer aid in hypertension management.
abstract: Hypertension-aid in physician treatment (HTN-APT) is an expert computer system that assists the physician in determining the best form of treatment for the individual hypertensive patient. The HTN-APT system aids the physician in managing the hypertensive patient by keeping a record of the patient's progress, allowing easy access to drug information, and generating recommendations and critiques about treatment options. The treatment recommendations are ranked by an analogue indication-contraindication scheme whereby each drug both singly and in combination is evaluated for patient suitability on the basis of more than 30 possible patient factors. When the computer-generated recommendations were evaluated by a group of family physicians, the HTN-APT system was found to make beneficial treatment recommendations without major judgmental error.
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D004360:Drug Therapy, Computer-Assisted; D005103:Expert Systems; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000188:drug therapy*; D012984:Software; D013813:Therapy, Computer-Assisted