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Evaluation of a Case-Based Antibiotics Therapy Adviser

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Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2001)

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Some years ago we have developed a case-based antibiotics therapy adviser within the ICONS project. In this paper, we present steps and results of medical evaluations concerning the quality of the recommended therapies, the user friendliness of the system, and the interpretation of laboratory results. Furthermore, we have compared retrieval times of two appropriate Case-based Reasoning retrieval algorithms.

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  1. Institut für Medizinische Informatik und Biometrie, Universität Rostock Universität Rostock, D-18055, Rostock, Germany

    Rainer Schmidt, Dagmar Steffen & Lothar Gierl

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  1. Rainer Schmidt
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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata, 1, 27100, Pavia, Italy

    Silvana Quaglini

  2. Departamento de Informática Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2825-114, Caparica, Portugal

    Pedro Barahona

  3. Department of Medical Informatics and Image Analysis, Aalborg University, Fredrik Bajersv ej 7D, 9220, AlborgØst, Denmark

    Steen Andreassen

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Schmidt, R., Steffen, D., Gierl, L. (2001). Evaluation of a Case-Based Antibiotics Therapy Adviser. In: Quaglini, S., Barahona, P., Andreassen, S. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. AIME 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2101. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48229-6_63

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