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We take a closer look at the medical environment in which decision support systems will have to operate and which ultimately determine their success of failure. Based on the experience accumulated in ten years of active involvement into research revolving around the construction of expert systems, we put forward for discussion a couple of judgements including representation of symptomatic detail, temporal reasoning, case data validation, rule syntax, intermediate conclusions, modularity, test indication/sequence and domain choice. For each of the items touched we describe how our preferences and conclusions have been implemented in the diagnostics shell D3 and thereupon-based diagnostic systems.
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Puppe, B. (1995). Reflections on building medical decision support systems and corresponding implementation in diagnostics shell D3. In: Barahona, P., Stefanelli, M., Wyatt, J. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. AIME 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 934. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60025-6_145
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