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Prototype Development of an Expert System of Computerized Clinical Guidelines for COVID-19 Diagnosis and Management in Saudi Arabia

The increasing number of COVID-19 patients has increased health care professionals’ workloads, making the management of dynamic patient information in a timely and comprehensive manner difficult and sometimes impossible. Compounding this problem is a lack of health care professionals and trained med...

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Autores principales: Banjar, Haneen Reda, Alkhatabi, Heba, Alganmi, Nofe, Almouhana, Ghaidaa Ibraheem
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7662618/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33147715
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17218066
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author Banjar, Haneen Reda
Alkhatabi, Heba
Alganmi, Nofe
Almouhana, Ghaidaa Ibraheem
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description The increasing number of COVID-19 patients has increased health care professionals’ workloads, making the management of dynamic patient information in a timely and comprehensive manner difficult and sometimes impossible. Compounding this problem is a lack of health care professionals and trained medical staff to handle the increased number of patients. Although Saudi Arabia has recently improved the quality of its health services, there is still no suitable intelligent system that can help health practitioners follow the clinical guidelines and automated risk assessment and treatment plan remotely, which would allow for the effective follow-up of patients of COVID-19. The proposed system includes five sub-systems: an information management system, a knowledge-based expert system, adaptive learning, a notification and follow-up system, and a mobile tracker system. This study shows that, to control epidemics, there is a method to overcome the shortage of specialists in the management of infections in Saudi Arabia, both today and in the future. The availability of computerized clinical guidance and an up-to-date knowledge base play a role in Saudi health organizations, which may not have to constantly train their physician staff and may no longer have to rely on international experts, since the expert system can offer clinicians all the information necessary to treat their patients.
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spelling pubmed-76626182020-11-14 Prototype Development of an Expert System of Computerized Clinical Guidelines for COVID-19 Diagnosis and Management in Saudi Arabia Banjar, Haneen Reda Alkhatabi, Heba Alganmi, Nofe Almouhana, Ghaidaa Ibraheem Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The increasing number of COVID-19 patients has increased health care professionals’ workloads, making the management of dynamic patient information in a timely and comprehensive manner difficult and sometimes impossible. Compounding this problem is a lack of health care professionals and trained medical staff to handle the increased number of patients. Although Saudi Arabia has recently improved the quality of its health services, there is still no suitable intelligent system that can help health practitioners follow the clinical guidelines and automated risk assessment and treatment plan remotely, which would allow for the effective follow-up of patients of COVID-19. The proposed system includes five sub-systems: an information management system, a knowledge-based expert system, adaptive learning, a notification and follow-up system, and a mobile tracker system. This study shows that, to control epidemics, there is a method to overcome the shortage of specialists in the management of infections in Saudi Arabia, both today and in the future. The availability of computerized clinical guidance and an up-to-date knowledge base play a role in Saudi health organizations, which may not have to constantly train their physician staff and may no longer have to rely on international experts, since the expert system can offer clinicians all the information necessary to treat their patients. MDPI 2020-11-02 2020-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7662618/ /pubmed/33147715 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17218066 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_short Prototype Development of an Expert System of Computerized Clinical Guidelines for COVID-19 Diagnosis and Management in Saudi Arabia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7662618/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33147715
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17218066
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