title: Internet-based decision-support server for acute abdominal pain.
abstract: The paper describes conception and prototypical design of a decision-support server for acute abdominal pain. Existing formal methods to develop and exchange scores, guidelines and algorithms are used for integration. For scoring systems a work-up to separate terminological information from structure is described. The terminology is separately stored in a data dictionary and the structure in a knowledge base. This procedure enables a reuse of terminology for documentation and decision-support. The whole system covers a decision-support server written in C++ with underlying data dictionary and knowledge base, a documentation module written in Java and a CORBA middleware that establishes a connection via Internet.
authors.affiliation: Department of General and Trauma Surgery, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany. eich@uni-duesseldorf.de
authors.forename: H P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Eich
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ohmann
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain; D000208:Acute Disease; D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012984:Software