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Clinical decision-support opportunities in oncology are numerous. Application programs may assist the diagnostic process, help define the proper therapy and adjust it to the patient's characteristics, streamline the delivery and follow-up of the treatments, provide tools for patient tracking and outcome measurements, and support patient care in the community. The authors and their colleagues have extended a novel general-purpose direct care-provider order entry system to take into account the particular aspects of chemotherapy ordering and decision-support. This new approach takes advantage of the infrastructure and functions of the integrated medical information system.
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Geissbühler, A., Miller, R.A., Stead, W.W. (1997). The clinical spectrum of decision-support in oncology with a case report of a real world system. In: Keravnou, E., Garbay, C., Baud, R., Wyatt, J. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. AIME 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1211. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0029455
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