A multi-agent system model to support palliative care units

Author

Riaño, David ; Prado, Susana ; Pascual, Antonio ; Martín, Silvestre

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comp. Eng. & Maths, Univ. Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

35

Lastpage

40

Abstract

Palliative care units are hospital services that assist advanced-state terminal patients. These patients are geographically distributed and some hospital tasks such as the organization of visits, the management of medicines, and the analysis of patients are difficult to manage. Here, a multi-layer computer system is proposed. The communication, information system, and multi-agent layers are described and a prototype of the system is used to deal with the Palliative Care Unit at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau in Barcelona.

Keywords

medical information systems; multi-agent systems; patient care; telemedicine; Barcelona; Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau; advanced-state terminal patients; hospital services; hospital tasks; information system; medicines management; multi-agent system model; multi-layer computer system; palliative care units; patients analysis; Diseases; Fellows; Home computing; Hospitals; Medical treatment; Multiagent systems; Pain; Prototypes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2002. (CBMS 2002). Proceedings of the 15th IEEE Symposium on

ISSN

1063-7125

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1614-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CBMS.2002.1011351

Filename

1011351