title: Decision support for management of febrile children ages 2 months to 5 years in tropical developing countries.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
authors.forename: Abdou Salam
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Gueye
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Buck
authors.forename: Brad
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Farr
mesh_terms: 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