Dealing with Medical Knowledge: Computers in Clinical Decision Making

by Endre Ludwig, Ewart Carson, Tibor Deutsch

Book Overview

In a systematic and clear manner, the authors discuss the problems associated with clinical decision making and explore the current methods to solve them. In this monograph, they examine the results of combining the classical control system approach with the symbolic approaches which have been central to developments in artificial intelligence. Well illustrated with case studies, this volume will prove to be an invaluable resource to system scientists,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1475799535
• ISBN13: 9781475799538
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent "Medical" Decision Making Text

I have been using this book for several years as one of the primary texts for the graduate students in a decision making class in the informatics program at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. It is the best single survey of decision making in healthcare that I have found. I would recommend this as a first book for those with and interest in this field. Other texts would be needed