title: [Medical informatics--decision support systems].
abstract: The paper describes medical informatics discipline and deals with decision support systems in more details. It describes the process of decision making using diagnostic and therapeutic decision making cycle and two sources of medical knowledge-scientific and empirical knowledge. It shows different approaches for development of computer supported decision systems and presents some examples of their use in medical practice.
authors.affiliation: Evropskĕ centrum pro medicínskou informatiku, statistiku a epidemiologii UK a AV CR, Praha.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zvárová
mesh_terms: D003658:Decision Making, Computer-Assisted; D005103:Expert Systems