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TraumaCASE: Exploiting the knowledge base of an existing decision support system to automatically construct medical cases

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Our goal is to use existing knowledge bases to automatically generate realistic cases of the appropriate level of difficulty based on a model of the user's current level of expertise. Such cases could be used for instructional purposes by a training module or for computer-based recertification exams by a quality assurance module. This paper describes our system for accomplishing this task in the domain of emergency center trauma care.

This work was supported by the National Library of Medicine under grant R01-LM-05764-01.

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, University of Delaware, 19716, Newark, DE

    Sandra Carberry

  2. Dept. of Surgery, Allegheny University of the Health Sciences, 19129, Phila., PA

    John R. Clarke M.D.

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  1. Sandra Carberry
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Zbigniew W. Raś Andrzej Skowron

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Carberry, S., Clarke, J.R. (1997). TraumaCASE: Exploiting the knowledge base of an existing decision support system to automatically construct medical cases. In: Raś, Z.W., Skowron, A. (eds) Foundations of Intelligent Systems. ISMIS 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1325. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63614-5_44

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