Decisions at hand: a decision support system on handhelds.
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2001-10-17
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One of the applications of clinical information systems is decision support Although the advantages of utilizing such aids have never been theoretically disputed they have been rarely used in practice The factor that probably often limits the utility of clinical decision support systems is the need for computing power at the very site of decision making at the place where the patient is interviewed in discussion rooms etc The paper reports on a possible solution to this problem A decision support shell LogReg is presented which runs on a handheld computer A general schema for handheld based decision support is also proposed where decision models are developed on personal computers workstations encoded in XML and then transferred to handhelds where the models are used within a decision support shell A use case where LogReg has been applied to clinical outcome prediction in crush injury is presented