Digital Ethics, HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 15, Utrecht, 3584 CS, The Netherlands.
Open University of the Netherlands, Valkenburgerweg 177, Heerlen, 6419 AT, The Netherlands.
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2024 Apr 18;24(1):100. doi: 10.1186/s12911-024-02486-3.
Decision-making in healthcare is increasingly complex; notably in hospital environments where the information density is high, e.g., emergency departments, oncology departments, and psychiatry departments. This study aims to discover decisions from logged data to improve the decision-making process.
The Design Science Research Methodology (DSRM) was chosen to design an artifact (algorithm) for the discovery and visualization of decisions. The DSRM's different activities are explained, from the definition of the problem to the evaluation of the artifact. During the design and development activities, the algorithm itself is created. During the demonstration and evaluation activities, the algorithm was tested with an authentic synthetic dataset.
The results show the design and simulation of an algorithm for the discovery and visualization of decisions. A fuzzy classifier algorithm was adapted for (1) discovering decisions from a decision log and (2) visualizing the decisions using the Decision Model and Notation standard.
In this paper, we show that decisions can be discovered from a decision log and visualized for the improvement of the decision-making process of healthcare professionals or to support the periodic evaluation of protocols and guidelines.
医疗保健领域的决策变得越来越复杂;尤其是在信息密度高的医院环境中,例如急诊科、肿瘤科和精神科。本研究旨在从日志数据中发现决策,以改善决策过程。
选择设计科学研究方法论(DSRM)来设计用于发现和可视化决策的人工制品(算法)。解释了 DSRM 的不同活动,从问题的定义到人工制品的评估。在设计和开发活动期间,创建了算法本身。在演示和评估活动期间,使用真实的合成数据集测试了算法。
结果显示了用于发现和可视化决策的算法的设计和模拟。模糊分类器算法被用于(1)从决策日志中发现决策,以及(2)使用决策模型和符号标准可视化决策。
在本文中,我们表明可以从决策日志中发现决策,并将其可视化,以改善医疗保健专业人员的决策过程,或支持协议和指南的定期评估。