The following list of articles is one that I have developed over the past several years. I have long dreamed of putting together a book that consisted of 250-1000 word reviews of these articles (along with others).   Accompanying each article would be a short statement by the original authors that helped put the article in context. So far I haven't made much progress. If anyone is interested in working on something like this I would be more than happy to discuss it. I can be reached at dean@informatics-review.com

Volume 1: Clinical Decision Support
Part I. Technical Considerations

Ledley RS, Lusted LB. Reasoning foundations of medical diagnosis. Science 130: 9-21, 1959. (reprinted in MD Computing 1991 Sep;8(5):300-315

Miller PL: ATTENDING: Critiquing a physician's management plan. IEEE Transactions On Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence PAMI-5:449-461, 1983.

Shortliffe EH, Davis R, Axline SG, Buchanan BG, Green CC, Cohen SN Computer-based consultations in clinical therapeutics: explanation and rule acquisition capabilities of the MYCIN system. Comput Biomed Res 1975 Aug;8(4):303-320

Gorry GA, Barnett GO Experience with a model of sequential diagnosis. Comput Biomed Res 1968 May;1(5):490-507

Pople H, Meyers JD. (not sure of title, but it about the Internist project) Proceedings 4^th Int J Conf AI 1975: 848-855.

Rothenberg J.  Ensuring the longevity of digital documents .  Scientific American 1995 (Jan):42-7.

Part II. Clinical Experiences

Warner HR … Cardiology and Bayes (?) JAMA 177, 1961.

Barnett GO, Cimino JJ, Hupp JA, Hoffer EP. DXplain. An evolving diagnostic decision-support system. JAMA 1987 Jul 3;258(1):67-74

Bleich HL. Computer evaluation of acid-base disorders. J Clin Invest 1969 Sep;48(9):1689-1696

Miller PL: Critiquing anesthetic management: The "ATTENDING" computer system. Anesthesiology 58:362-369, 1983.

Miller RA, Pople HE Jr, Myers JD Internist-1, an experimental computer-based diagnostic consultant for general internal medicine. N Engl J Med 1982 Aug 19;307(8):468-476

de Dombal FT, Horrocks JC, Staniland JR, Guillou PJ Construction and uses of a 'data-base' of clinical information concerning 600 patients with acute abdominal pain. Proc R Soc Med 1971 Sep;64(9):978

de Dombal FT, Leaper DJ, Staniland JR, McCann AP, Horrocks JC. Computer-aided diagnosis of acute abdominal pain. Br Med J 1972 Apr 1;2(5804):9-13

Gorry GA, Barnett GO Sequential diagnosis by computer. JAMA 1968 Sep 16;205(12):849-854

Collen MF, Rubin L, Neyman J, et al. Automated multiphasic screening and diagnosis. Am J Public Health 54: 741-750, 1964.

Kingsland LC 3d, Lindberg DA, Sharp GC. AI/RHEUM. A consultant system for rheumatology. J Med Syst 1983 Jun;7(3):221-227

McDonald CJ. Protocol-based computer reminders, the quality of care and the non-perfectability
of man. N Engl J Med 1976 Dec 9;295(24):1351-5

Nelson SJ, Blois MS, Tuttle MS, Erlbaum M, Harrison P, Kim H, Winkelmann B, Yamashita D. Evaluating RECONSIDER. A computer program for diagnostic prompting. J Med Syst 1985 Dec;9(5-6):379-388

Weiss S, Kulikowski CA, Safir A. Glaucoma consultation by computer. Comput Biol Med 1978 Jan;8(1):25-40

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