A Problem-Solving Model for Protocol-Based Care: From e-ONCOCIN to EON

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Citation: Mark A. Musen and Samson W. Tu and Yuval Shahar. (1992) A Problem-Solving Model for Protocol-Based Care: From e-ONCOCIN to EON. In KSL-91-61, 1992.

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author Mark A. Musen and Samson W. Tu and Yuval Shahar
title A Problem-Solving Model for Protocol-Based Care: From e-ONCOCIN to EON
number KSL-91-61
institution Knowledge Systems, AI Laboratory
address Palexpo Geneva, Switzerland
year 1992
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abstract Decision-support programs can plan medical therapy using a problem-solving method called episodic skeletal-plan refinement (ESPR). The e-ONCOCIN system incorporates a fixed form of the ESPR method that makes the program unable to reason about protocol-based care when treatment decisions must be made on the basis of abstractions of primary data, and when individual therapy actions may themselves require initiation of complex procedures. We have developed a new reasoning framework, called EON, in which problem-solving methods such as ESPR can be divided into discrete subtasks. EON invokes alternative, smaller-grained problem-solving methods for each subtask of a method. Subtasks of the smaller-grained methods may be solved by yet other methods, in a recursive manner. A formal model of the data processed by the problem-solving methods in EON simplifies knowledge acquisition and insulates developers from the details of how knowledge bases are implemented. The EON architecture provides considerable flexibility in constructing problem solvers, and offers system builders the ability to author knowledge bases that facilitate protocol-based care in a wide range of clinical areas.

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Abstract Decision-support programs can plan medical … Decision-support programs can plan medical therapy using a problem-solving method called episodic skeletal-plan refinement (ESPR). The e-ONCOCIN system incorporates a fixed form of the ESPR method that makes the program unable to reason about protocol-based care when treatment decisions must be made on the basis of abstractions of primary data, and when individual therapy actions may themselves require initiation of complex procedures. We have developed a new reasoning framework, called EON, in which problem-solving methods such as ESPR can be divided into discrete subtasks. EON invokes alternative, smaller-grained problem-solving methods for each subtask of a method. Subtasks of the smaller-grained methods may be solved by yet other methods, in a recursive manner. A formal model of the data processed by the problem-solving methods in EON simplifies knowledge acquisition and insulates developers from the details of how knowledge bases are implemented. The EON architecture provides considerable flexibility in constructing problem solvers, and offers system builders the ability to author knowledge bases that facilitate protocol-based care in a wide range of clinical areas. ed care in a wide range of clinical areas.
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