Methods Inf Med 1993; 32(04): 326-338
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1634941
Original Article
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Reconstructing Medical Problem Solving Competence: MACCORD

D. Kraus
1   Dept of Medical Informatics, Heart Center Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany
,
B. Petkoff
2   RG Expert Systems, Institute for System Analysis and Technology Assessment GBM mbH, Germany
,
H. Mannebach
3   Cardiological Clinic, Heart Center Northrhine-Westphalia, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
,
S. Kirkby
2   RG Expert Systems, Institute for System Analysis and Technology Assessment GBM mbH, Germany
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Publication Date:
06 February 2018 (online)

Abstract

The building of medical knowledge-based systems involves the reconstruction of methodological principles and structures within the various subdomains of medicine. ACCORD is a general methodology of knowledge-based systems, and MACCORD its application to medicine. MACCORD represents the problem solving behavior of the medical expert in terms of various types of medical reasoning and at various levels of abstraction. With MACCORD the epistemic and cognitive processes in clinical medicine can be described in formal terminology, covering the entire diversity of medical reasoning. MACCORD is close enough to formalization to make a significant contribution to the fields of medical knowledge acquisition, medical didactics and the analysis and application of medical problem solving methods.

 
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