OaSiS: integrating safety reasoning for decision support in oncology

Author

Hammond, Peter

Author_Institution

Adv. Comput. Lab., Imperial Cancer Res. Fund Labs., London, UK

fYear

1994

fDate

1-4 Mar 1994

Firstpage

185

Lastpage

191

Abstract

Oncologists manage the treatment of cancer patients under a variety of protocol-based clinical trials. Each trial requires data to be collected for monitoring efficacy and toxicity. The life-threatening nature of cancer and the toxicity of therapy emphasise the safety-critical nature of oncology. OaSiS provides decision support for protocol-based treatment of cancer and contributes to better data management and safer, more consistent application of protocols. It offers a highly graphical interface, employs logic-based problem-solving and is implemented in PROLOG

Keywords

computerised monitoring; decision support systems; graphical user interfaces; inference mechanisms; logic programming; medical administrative data processing; patient treatment; problem solving; safety; OaSiS; PROLOG implementation; cancer patients; data management; decision support; efficacy monitoring; graphical interface; life-threatening nature; logic programming; logic-based problem-solving; oncology; patient treatment; protocol-based clinical trials; safety reasoning; toxicity monitoring; Cancer; Clinical trials; Decision support systems; Laboratories; Law; Marine safety; Medical treatment; Oncology; Protocols; Software safety;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Artificial Intelligence for Applications, 1994., Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on

Conference_Location

San Antonia, TX

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5550-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CAIA.1994.323675

Filename

323675