title: Integrating communicative goals for real-time clinical decision support.
abstract: A critiquing system evaluating a physician's management plan may produce a set of individual comments that, taken together, appear repetitious or incoherent. This paper presents TraumaGEN, a system for integrating sets of possibly inter-related communicative goals into one or more coherent messages. TraumaGEN takes account of the purpose of the messages, the situation in which the messages will be received, and the social role of the system. Preliminary evaluation of TraumaGEN indicates that it produce coherent integrated messages.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Delaware, Newark 19716, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Carberry
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Harvey
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Clarke
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003658:Decision Making, Computer-Assisted; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D006801:Humans; D009104:Multiple Trauma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D018511:Systems Integration; D014584:User-Computer Interface