title: Symposium on the role of the laboratory in clinical decision making--Part II. Perspectives on clinical decisions.
abstract: The critical role of expert judgment in clinical decision support has been accommodated in a class of approaches termed knowledge based systems. These have arisen from work in artificial intelligence on expert performance. Some of the perspectives and insights that have been gained from these approaches are briefly discussed.
mesh_terms: D001499:Bayes Theorem; D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques; D003657:Decision Making; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D006801:Humans; D008606:Mental Processes; D011336:Probability