TY - JOUR
T1 - Knowledge management as a decision support method
T2 - A diagnostic workup strategy application
AU - Greenes, Robert A.
AU - Tarabar, David B.
AU - Krauss, Madeline
AU - Anderson, Gina
AU - Wolnik, Walter J.
AU - Cope, Lawrence
AU - Slosser, Eric
AU - Hersh, William
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by Grants LM 04572 and LM 07037 from the National Library of Medicine, DHHS, and by a grant from the CAMDAT Foundation. Inc., Farmington. Connecticut. We sincerely thank the staff and resident physicians of Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Radiology, who willingly served as subjects in the evaluation of CASPER and offered helpful criticisms and suggestions.
PY - 1989/4
Y1 - 1989/4
N2 - We have explored the potential of a computer-based approach called "knowledge management" to aid in clinical problem solving and education. The major features of the approach are its ability to support flexible and immediate access by a user to relevant knowledge and annotation and organization of the knowledge for personal use and subsequent retrieval. We illustrate this approach with its application to diagnostic workup strategy problems. In this application, knowledge may be in the form of static narrative text, diagrams, pictures, graphs, tables, flow charts, or bibliographic citations. Other more dynamic forms of knowledge may be the result of simulations, "what if" analyses or modeling, quantitative mathematical or statistical calculation, or heuristic inference. User assessment has demonstrated the system's ease of use and user perception of its desirability, but underscores the need for a "critical mass" of knowledge before such an approach will be widely utilized.
AB - We have explored the potential of a computer-based approach called "knowledge management" to aid in clinical problem solving and education. The major features of the approach are its ability to support flexible and immediate access by a user to relevant knowledge and annotation and organization of the knowledge for personal use and subsequent retrieval. We illustrate this approach with its application to diagnostic workup strategy problems. In this application, knowledge may be in the form of static narrative text, diagrams, pictures, graphs, tables, flow charts, or bibliographic citations. Other more dynamic forms of knowledge may be the result of simulations, "what if" analyses or modeling, quantitative mathematical or statistical calculation, or heuristic inference. User assessment has demonstrated the system's ease of use and user perception of its desirability, but underscores the need for a "critical mass" of knowledge before such an approach will be widely utilized.
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U2 - 10.1016/0010-4809(89)90021-9
DO - 10.1016/0010-4809(89)90021-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 2656076
AN - SCOPUS:0024560006
SN - 0010-4809
VL - 22
SP - 113
EP - 135
JO - Computers and Biomedical Research
JF - Computers and Biomedical Research
IS - 2
ER -