title: Derivation of rule-based knowledge from established medical outlines.
abstract: The purpose of this paper is to describe the derivation of a rule base for an expert system from an existing medical auditing method called a criteria map. The criteria map represents the physician's logic in the specialty involved. The system described, EMERGE, is written in the standard Pascal programming language, operates on a microcomputer, and provides a convenient user-interface. All medical knowledge in EMERGE is contained in an independent set of production rules, which are derived from the criteria map.
mesh_terms: D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D007256:Information Systems; D007257:Information Theory; D008838:Microcomputers; D012984:Software