title: DeTMan: a decision tree management tool for the Web and PDA environments.
abstract: Illness management protocols, often represented as decision trees, are used in many areas of medicine. Some clinical departments maintain numerous, often quite complex protocols. Protocol access in acute care situations can be challenging, especially when available only in hardcopy format. Access via the web and especially via personal digital assistants would be more helpful. In the absence of the prior availability of a general purpose web/PDA decision tree editor/navigator, we are developing such a tool.
authors.affiliation: Holings Cancer Center (HCC) and the Division of Hematology/Oncology (Hem/Onc), Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Charleston, USA.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lindquist
authors.forename: Lawrence B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Afrin
authors.forename: E Douglas
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Norcross
mesh_terms: D002985:Clinical Protocols; D034201:Computers, Handheld; D019992:Databases as Topic; D003663:Decision Trees; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000628:therapy*