Decision support for management of febrile children ages 2 months to 5 years in tropical developing countries.
Developing countries rarely have enough physicians to follow the traditional diagnostic process found in wealthier nations. Initial diagnoses often must be made by non-physician personnel. In order to enhance the quality of these diagnoses, we have built an expert decision-support system for triaging childhood fever cases for malaria, measles, and acute respiratory infections. The user is guided through a series of questions that produces clinical care guidelines tailored to the patient's condition.
Gueye
Abdou Salam
AS
Department of Medical Informatics University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Buck
Michael
M
Farr
Brad
B
D002675:Child, Preschool; D003906:Developing Countries; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005103:Expert Systems; D005334:Fever / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008288:Malaria / Q000175:diagnosis; D008457:Measles / Q000175:diagnosis; D012141:Respiratory Tract Infections / Q000175:diagnosis; D014330:Tropical Medicine