Decision Support System for Constantly Monitoring Patients in a Comorbid Condition

In this paper, we present the design of a telecommunication and computer technology based system for monitoring patients in the presence of a comorbid condition. Specifically, we take the monitoring of patients with both atrial fibrillation (AF) and Wolff Parkinsons White (WPW) as an example to clarify the process of system design. This system performs combining of guidelines for different diseases in view of the potential conflict occuring. The architecture of our system, including this decision support system, is detailed in this paper. To show system accuracy, we theoretically evaluate the ability of a decision support system to correctly make decisions as well as to detect the conflict between guidelines.

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