Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Computers in Cardiology 1991, Proceedings.
Conference_Location :
Venice
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2485-X
DOI :
10.1109/CIC.1991.169017
