Knowledge Management Practices and Healthcare Delivery
Clinical Decision Support Systems where the system has the characteristics of both an electronic medical textbook and a medical reference system. In its reference or case analysis mode, the system accepts a set of clinical findings (signs, symptoms, laboratory data) to produce a ranked list of diagnoses which might explain (or be associated with) the clinical [login to view URL] system can provides justification for why each of these diseases might be considered, suggests what further clinical information would be useful to collect for each disease, and lists what clinical manifestations, if any, would be unusual or atypical for each of the specific diseases, also suggests a treatemt and medications.