Title :
Group decision support system: a temporal approach in medical multidisciplinary consultation
Author :
Kulik, J.F. ; Martinot, V. ; Pellerin, P. ; Beuscart, R.
Author_Institution :
Fac. de Med., Lille II Univ., France
Abstract :
The multidisciplinary consultations are an increasingly frequent disease management with complex pathologies. Each actor knows “a priori” the calendar of its own interventions. During this consultation, these various actors will have to negotiate their calendar with the other speakers. It is significant to have a good representation of the events of these calendars on a time-line with an univocal and reproducible representation. This talk shows how speakers of a multidisciplinary consultation carry out a chart of the calendar of assumption of responsibility. This graph is used as model to establish a proposal of optimal calendar. This calendar is connected, with the various decisions from each one, to a context which can change according to the evolution of the diseases. This model allows the creation of a programming tool written in Prolog IV for the management of the calendar under constraint
Keywords :
diseases; group decision support systems; medical computing; Prolog IV; complex pathologies; disease management; diseases evolution; multidisciplinary consultations; optimal calendar proposal; programming tool; speakers; Calendars; Constraint optimization; Decision support systems; Diseases; Filling; Graphics; Natural languages; Pathology; Project management; Proposals;
Conference_Titel :
[Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 1999. 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Annual Fall Meetring of the Biomedical Engineering Society] BMES/EMBS Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the First Joint
Conference_Location :
Atlanta, GA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5674-8
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1999.804386