Towards an Evidence-Based Decision Support Tool for Management of Musculoskeletal Conditions

YET B., Marsh W., Morrissey D.

Special Topic Conference of the European-Fedeeration-for-Medical-Informatics (EFMI STC), Zagreb, Hırvatistan, 15 - 16 Ekim 2018, cilt.255, ss.175-179 identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Cilt numarası: 255
  • Doi Numarası: 10.3233/978-1-61499-921-8-175
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Zagreb
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Hırvatistan
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.175-179
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

Musculoskeletal (MSK) problems present an increasing burden for the healthcare sector, particularly in ageing populations. Advances in evidence are often slow to influence clinical decisions, suggesting decision support would be beneficial. We propose a Bayesian network (BN) for providing evidence-based decision support as it can explicitly represent domain knowledge as causal relations and allows both domain knowledge and clinical data to be combined to create a usable decision model. We make a preliminary evaluation of the model's performance.