Exploiting multiple goals and intentions in decision support for the management of multiple trauma: a review of the TraumAID project

Bonnie Webber, Sandra Carberry, John R. Clarke, Abigail Gertner, Terrence Harvey, Ron Rymon, Richard Washington

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Abstract / Description of output

Managing a patient with multiple injuries is a cognitively intense task. While protocols provide invaluable support for maintaining quality care, they generally address a single condition, while multiple trauma generally involves many. The TraumAID system tries to address this by providing tools for reasoning, planning, plan recognition and text generation which essentially coordinate and integrate multiple recommendations from multiple protocols. This paper reviews work on all these tools, including their (individual) evaluations, setting the work within a uniform conceptual framework of goals, intentions and actions. Because TraumAID's use in real-time decision support depends critically on electronic forms of information sharing and recording practices in the Emergency Trauma Center, TraumAID continues to remain a laboratory exercise. Nevertheless, the general value of integrating multiple protocols for decision support justifies attention to the solution methods TraumAID provides.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)263 - 293
JournalArtificial Intelligence
Volume105
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1998

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • TraumAID Project
  • Decision support
  • Multiple trauma management
  • Goal-directed reasoning
  • Planning
  • Plan recognition
  • Text generation
  • Threshold approach
  • Goals
  • Intentions
  • Actions

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