Improve treatment of pneumonia and reduce adverse drug events

Adverse drug events ADE occur frequently in both ambulatory and inpatient settings and often lead to hospitalization; these events occur more often in the elderly. ADE may result from medication errors at the medication process or from ADE. In this paper we present a new method to improve treatment...

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Published in2013 IEEE Point-Of-Care Healthcare Technologies pp. 89 - 92
Main Authors Douali, N., Papageorgiou, E. I., De Roo, J., Hong Sun, Colaert, D., Jaulent, M.
Format Conference Proceeding Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.01.2013
Subjects
Case Based Fuzzy Cognitive Maps
Clinical Guidelines
Cognition
Decision Support Systems
Diseases
Drugs
Elderly people
Errors
Guidelines
Health care
Knowledge Representation
Lungs
Medical diagnostic imaging
Patients
Pneumonia
Rules
Semantic Web
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Summary:Adverse drug events ADE occur frequently in both ambulatory and inpatient settings and often lead to hospitalization; these events occur more often in the elderly. ADE may result from medication errors at the medication process or from ADE. In this paper we present a new method to improve treatment of Community-acquired pneumonia. We use database of 86 patients to test and validate this approach.
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ISBN:9781467327657
1467327654
ISSN:2377-5262
2377-5270
DOI:10.1109/PHT.2013.6461291