Modelling diagnostic reasoning based on mental state examination

Title: Modelling diagnostic reasoning based on mental state examination
Creator: Fernando, Irosh; Henskens, Frans A.
Relation: International Journal of Modeling and Optimization Vol. 3, Issue 6, p. 471-474
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.7763/IJMO.2013.V3.323
Publisher: International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2013
Description: Mental state examination is an important aspect of clinical assessment. Clinicians arrive at an overall subjective diagnostic judgment based on the findings of the mental state examination. It is largely an implicit process, which clinicians have learned through their experience, and is therefore, prone to inconsistencies. This paper presents a formal model for arriving at expert clinical judgment based on mental state examination findings, and monitoring the course of illness using parameters derived using the model. The proposed model has been implemented as a clinical tool, which is currently being evaluated in clinical practice. The model has the advantage of improving the reliability and validity of clinical assessment.
Subject: diagnostic reasoning in psychiatry; modelling mental state examination in psychiatry; clinical reasoning in psychiatry; modelling diagnostic reasoning in psychiatry
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1341655
Identifier: uon:28787
Identifier: ISSN:2010-3697
Language: eng
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