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Knowledge Reasoning Model
to Support Clinical Decision Making
Qingshan Li
1
, Jing Feng
2
, Lu Wang
1
, Hua Chu
1
, and WeiJuan Fu
1
1
Software Engineering Institute, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China
2
Xidian Hospital, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China
qshli@mail.xidian.edu.cn
Abstract. According to the characteristics of clinical decision-making and the
actual work of clinical diagnosis, this paper presents to introduce the knowledge
reasoning model about the clinical diagnosis and treatment into the clinical
decision support systems (CDSS) to enhance the decision-making ability. Fur-
thermore, a kind of structure of the reasoning model and a comprehensive me-
thod of the clinical decision making based on event-driven is also proposed in
this paper. This method can dynamically adjust to new medical behavioral
events, support the complex medical decision-making behavior, make the
CDSS to better support the real-time clinical diagnosis and treatment decisions,
so as to effectively assist clinicians in clinical diagnosis and treatment work,
and improve normalization and accuracy in medical work.
Keywords: Clinical Decision Making, Knowledge Reasoning Model, Event
Driven.
With the deepening of medical information, doctors as the main body of medical be-
havior mainly rely on the professional knowledge learning and the accumulation of
personal experience to provide medical services for patients. They not only need to
access, understand and use a large number of patients’ medical records information to
implement medical treatment for patients, especially for high-risk patients or patients
with rare diseases, but also need more experience in clinical diagnosis and treatment,
medical software and hardware equipment support in hospitals. Because of unevenly
medical resources distribution of our country’s medical industry and junior doctors’
limited experience, the number of medical errors is relatively large.
Discussion and study on the mechanism and method of clinical decision making
will play a key role in improving the decision-making reasoning ability of clinical
decision support system. We discuss how to reasonably and efficiently make use of
clinical expertise and patients’ medical record data, with flexible, efficient and accu-
rate reasoning method, to make decision reasoning has a very important practical
medical value and significance.
1 The Research of Knowledge Reasoning Model
In order to improve the decision-making reasoning ability of clinical decision support
system, to achieve flexible and efficient automatic clinical decision-making reasoning,