title: Collection of Medical Original Data with Search Engine for Decision Support.
abstract: Medicine is becoming more and more complex and humans can capture total medical knowledge only partially. For specific access a high resolution search engine is demonstrated, which allows besides conventional text search also search of precise quantitative data of medical findings, therapies and results. Users can define metric spaces ("Domain Spaces", DSs) with all searchable quantitative data ("Domain Vectors", DSs). An implementation of the search engine is online in http://numericsearch.com. In future medicine the doctor could make first a rough diagnosis and check which fine diagnostics (quantitative data) colleagues had collected in such a case. Then the doctor decides about fine diagnostics and results are sent (half automatically) to the search engine which filters a group of patients which best fits to these data. In this specific group variable therapies can be checked with associated therapeutic results, like in an individual scientific study for the current patient. The statistical (anonymous) results could be used for specific decision support. Reversely the therapeutic decision (in the best case with later results) could be used to enhance the collection of precise pseudonymous medical original data which is used for better and better statistical (anonymous) search results.
authors: University Clinic Schleswig-Holstein, 24105 Kiel/Germany.
authors: Wolfgang
authors: W
authors: Orthuber
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D006801:Humans; D057386:Search Engine / Q000379:methods; D013813:Therapy, Computer-Assisted