Patient facing decision support system for interpretation of laboratory test results.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In some healthcare systems, it is common that patients address laboratory test centers directly without a physician's recommendation. This practice is widely spread in Russia with about 28% of patients who visiting laboratory test centers for diagnostics. This causes an issue when patients get no help from the physician in understanding the results. Computer decision support systems proved to efficiently solve a resource consuming task of interpretation of the test results. So, a decision support system can be implemented to rise motivation and empower the patients who visit a laboratory service without a doctor's referral.

Methods

We have developed a clinical decision support system for patients that solves a classification task and finds a set of diagnoses for t

SUBMITTER: Kopanitsa G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6053711 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature