Knowledge-based modeling for the classification and follow-up of patients with congenital heart disease

Author

van den Heuvel, F. ; van Mulligen, E.M. ; Timmers, T. ; Hess, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Med. Inf., Erasmus Univ., Rotterdam, Netherlands

fYear

1991

fDate

23-26 Sep 1991

Firstpage

737

Lastpage

740

Abstract

A model is presented for the support of clinical research in the domain of pediatric cardiology, in particular the long-term follow-up of patients with congenital heart disease (CongHD). It can be used for the collection, storage, retrieval, and analysis of data on a variety of hardware platforms. Using an object-oriented approach, a datamodel and an extensive controlled vocabulary of CongHd has been created. The model is part of the Medical Workstation 2000, an integrated graphical environment for the support of clinical research. The general structures of the model and of the vocabulary are described

Keywords

cardiology; knowledge based systems; medical computing; physiological models; Medical Workstation 2000; clinical research support; congenital heart disease; data analysis; data collection; data retrieval; data storage; datamodel; extensive controlled vocabulary; integrated graphical environment; object-oriented approach; patient classification; patient follow-up; pediatric cardiology; Cardiac disease; Cardiology; Data analysis; Heart; Hospitals; Lesions; Object oriented modeling; Pediatrics; Vocabulary; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers in Cardiology 1991, Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Venice

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2485-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIC.1991.169017

Filename

169017