Internet-based decision-support server for acute abdominal pain

The paper describes conception and prototypical design of a decision-suppor t server for acute abdominal pain. Existing formal methods to develop and e xchange scores, guidelines and algorithms are used for integration. For sco ring systems a work-up to separate terminological information from structur e is described. The terminology is separately stored in a data dictionary a nd the structure in a knowledge base. This procedure enables a reuse of ter minology for documentation and decision-support. The whole system covers a decision-support server written in C+ + with underlying data dictionary and knowledge base, a documentation module written in Java and a CORBA middlew are that establishes a connection via Internet. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B .V. All rights reserved.