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Keynote papers.- Objective medical decision making with special reference to acute abdominal pain.- Expert systems.- Acute abdomen.- Comparison of several discrimination methods. Application to the acute abdominal pain diagnosis.- Teaching clinical decision-making with computer-simulated patients.- Weights optimization in a rule-based expert system: An application to the diagnosis of acute abdominal pain.- Experience with compiling a diagnostic database on acute abdominal pain.- Medical decision making - the patient.- Summary and conclusion of the acute abdomen session.- Cardiovascular disease - myocardial infarct.- Medical decision-making applied to the diagnosis of coronary artery disease.- Hypertension management: Connection of an expert system to the ARTEMIS patient database.- From clinical experience to objective decision making in myocardial infarction.- Prognostic indicators for patients with acute myocardial infarction complicated by pump failure undergoing intraaortic counterpulsation.- Improved estimation of operative risk after heart valve replacement: Medical decision-making based on multivariate logistic regression analysis.- Practical experience in provision of objective decision support for acute chest pain in primary care.- Summary and conclusion of the cardiovascular session.- Jaundice.- The Torino liver project.- A general hospital diagnostic database on jaundice.- Differential diagnosis of jaundice: A pocket diagnostic chart Copenhagen Computer Icterus Group.- Statistical prediction of diagnosis: Application to hepatitis.- Educational use of objective diagnostic methods.- Summary and conclusion of the jaundice session.- Diabetes.- Mathematical models of insulin, ketone bodies and glucose kinetics in diabetes: Their use for understanding andassessing metabolism and its control.- Objective medical decision-making in diabetes.- Possibilities for prediction of blood glucose and improvement of diabetes control.- The glucagon/C-peptide test in the discrimination of insulin-dependent from non-insulin-dependent diabetes.- Diabeta - An expert system for the management of diabetes.- Summary and conclusion of the diabetes session.- Generalist systems.- The MEDIUC system for diagnostic support and its new gastroenterological database.- Idea - A consultative system.- Decision aid in the general practitioner's office: Myth or possible reality?.- An expert system for anemia diagnosis.- A computer assisted diagnostic system for dyspepsia (Gladys).- Epilogue.
