Title :
Decision making in vascular surgery
Author_Institution :
Samara State Med. Univ., Russia
Abstract :
The practical implementation of Saaty´s analytic hierarchy process for the decision making in vascular surgery is proposed. The mathematical modelling for decision making using both clinical parameters and quality of life data is described. The result of the work is algorithm for individual choice of the treatment method in patients with moderate lower limb ischemia due to atherosclerosis obliterans. This algorithm can be used in other fields of clinical medicine as well
Keywords :
decision theory; patient treatment; surgery; Saaty method; analytic hierarchy process; atherosclerosis obliterans; decision making; lower limb ischemia; mathematical model; patient treatment; quality of life; vascular surgery; Atherosclerosis; Decision making; Diseases; Environmental economics; Industrial economics; Ischemic pain; Life estimation; Mathematical model; Medical treatment; Surgery;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Control (ISIC), 1998. Held jointly with IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA), Intelligent Systems and Semiotics (ISAS), Proceedings
Conference_Location :
Gaithersburg, MD
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4423-5
DOI :
10.1109/ISIC.1998.713710
