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Although the concept of automated disease prediction is ancient, only recently have serious attempts been made to provide doctors who treat acute disease with some form of computer-aided decision-support system. In part this has been due to an over-simplification of the term “computer-aided diagnosis” — for in recent years it has been realised that computer-aided systems may support clinical decision-making in acute medicine in a wide variety of ways.
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de Dombal, F.T. (1983). Evaluation of Decision Making by Humans and Computers in Acute Abdominal and Acute Chest Pain. In: Beneken, J.E.W., Lavelle, S.M. (eds) Objective Medical Decision-making; Systems Approach in Acute Disease. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 22. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48334-9_6
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