The acute abdomen in emergency with Hypercard

A C Harvey; P F Moodie; J E Reda; N J Childs; D Gray; M Samimi; D P Thorlakson

The acute abdomen in emergency with Hypercard

Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care. 1991:156-9.

Authors

A C Harvey¹, P F Moodie, J E Reda, N J Childs, D Gray, M Samimi, D P Thorlakson

Affiliation

¹ Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Misericordia Hospital, Winnipeg.

PMID: 1807577
PMCID: PMC2247514

Abstract

A non-sequential Bayesian program for diagnosing acute abdominal pain was developed using an Amdahl mainframe accessed by a Texas Instrument remote terminal. Transferring the program to a MacIntosh SE/30 using hypercard was attended by increased utilisation from 15 to 44%.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Abdomen, Acute / etiology*
Bayes Theorem
Consumer Behavior
Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted* / statistics & numerical data
Emergency Service, Hospital
Hospitals, Community
Humans
Manitoba
Microcomputers
Software