title: Automated modeling of medical decisions.
abstract: We have developed a graph grammar and a graph-grammar derivation system that, together, generate decision-theoretic models from unordered lists of medical terms. The medical terms represent considerations in a dilemma that confronts the patient and the health-care provider. Our current grammar ensures that several desirable structural properties are maintained in all derived decision models.
authors.affiliation: Section on Medical Informatics, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA 94305-5479.
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Egar
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Musen
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D003658:Decision Making, Computer-Assisted; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D006801:Humans; D012984:Software; D009626:Terminology as Topic