Information and Medicine: An Ambiguous Title

06/07/2000

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Information and Medicine An Ambiguous Title

An Aside into History

Clinical Judgment and Computers

What is Information?

What is Information? (II)

What is Information? (III)

What is Information? (Blois)

Structure of Information

The Nominal-Attribute Structure

Properties of the N||A Structure

Open and Closed Descriptions

Necessary and Sufficient Attributes

The Comptean Hierarchy

Some Observations

Important Observation

Processes of Information Handling

Hierarchical Arrangement of Attributes

What is a Disease?

What is a Disease? (II)

What is a Disease? (III)

A Hierarchical Model

A High-Level Disease Depression

A Low-Level Disease Chemical Diabetes

Attribute Lattice for Pheochromocytoma

How is Medicine Different?

Medical Information Sources

Contextual Recognition

Creation of Medical Information

Selectivity of Terminology

The RECONSIDER experience

A Clinical Trial

Cooperative Computation

How do you test theories?

Author: Stuart J. Nelson

Email: nelson@nlm.nih.gov

Home Page: www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh

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