title: Decisions at hand: a decision support system on handhelds.
abstract: One of the applications of clinical information systems is decision support. Although the advantages of utilizing such aids have never been theoretically disputed, they have been rarely used in practice. The factor that probably often limits the utility of clinical decision support systems is the need for computing power at the very site of decision making--at the place where the patient is interviewed, in discussion rooms, etc. The paper reports on a possible solution to this problem. A decision-support shell LogReg is presented, which runs on a handheld computer. A general schema for handheld-based decision support is also proposed, where decision models are developed on personal computers/workstations, encoded in XML and then transferred to handhelds, where the models are used within a decision support shell. A use case where LogReg has been applied to clinical outcome prediction in crush injury is presented.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. blaz.zupan@fri.uni-lj.si
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zupan
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Porenta
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Vidmar
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Aoki
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bratko
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Beck
mesh_terms: D016001:Confidence Intervals; D003444:Crush Syndrome; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008838:Microcomputers; D016017:Odds Ratio; D011379:Prognosis; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software