Assessing Diagnostic Reasoning: A Consensus Statement Summarizing Theory, Practice, and Future Needs

Assessing future health workforce needs

Spatial Reasoning: Theory and Practice

formal languages can also serve as document encoding languages, for instance, first-order logic. The syntax and semantics are the usual ones for firstorder logic, taking special care in giving adequate semantics to spatial relations and predicates. A final example of a general document encoding rule stated informally in natural language is the following: “in the Western culture, documents are u...

A Probabilistic Theory of Abductive Diagnostic Reasoning

In this paper, we present a probabilistic theory of abductive diagnostic reasoning. The domain knowledge is represented by a causal network. An explanation of a set of observations is a chain of causation events. These causation events constitute a scenario where all the observations can be observed. We deene the best explanation to be the most probable explanation. The underlying causal model ...

Recognition and management of depression in general practice: consensus statement.

Depression is a frequently occurring psychiatric disorder , and most depressed patients in the United Kingdom are treated in general practice. The Royal College of Psychiatrists, in association with the Royal College of General Practitioners, has embarked on a "defeat depression" campaign.' Anticipating that an increased proportion of the large numbers of the general population who do not at pr...

Summarizing discussion and future perspectives