title: A simplified judgment system for medical informatics.
abstract: This report describes a new simplified judgment system which enables users to register appropriate judgment rules with ease and to apply them to a wide variety of medical problems. The rule utilized in this system is 3-AND-3-OR, quite a simple one. By applying this judgment rule to the data of as many as 60 items, judgment results of the individual on each item is given by four different grades or categories, namely: 1) normal, 2) borderline, 3) abnormal, and 4) severe. As many as 20 types can be obtained simultaneously. The simplicity of the algorithm allows medical users who are not the experts in computer technology to use this system on a DOS-based personal computer.
authors.affiliation: Department of Information Engineering, Mining College, Akita University, Akita City, Akita 010, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Narita
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tamamoto
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Satoh
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Namura
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Murakami
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Miura
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takemoto
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003658:Decision Making, Computer-Assisted; D003704:Dementia / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D005103:Expert Systems; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D007600:Judgment; D008403:Mass Screening; D008838:Microcomputers; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D012307:Risk Factors; D012985:Software Design; D014584:User-Computer Interface