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How to Identify Rheumatic Diseases by General Physicians

How to Identify Rheumatic Diseases by General Physicians

Eduardo C. Contreras, Gustavo J. Puente
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 31
ISBN13: 9781799809517|ISBN10: 179980951X|EISBN13: 9781799809524
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-0951-7.ch073
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Contreras, Eduardo C., and Gustavo J. Puente. "How to Identify Rheumatic Diseases by General Physicians." Natural Language Processing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2020, pp. 1533-1563. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-0951-7.ch073

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Contreras, E. C. & Puente, G. J. (2020). How to Identify Rheumatic Diseases by General Physicians. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Natural Language Processing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 1533-1563). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-0951-7.ch073

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Contreras, Eduardo C., and Gustavo J. Puente. "How to Identify Rheumatic Diseases by General Physicians." In Natural Language Processing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 1533-1563. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-0951-7.ch073

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Abstract

A large part of the population in countries in process of development ignores what Rheumatic Diseases are, and general practitioners are in most cases unaware of enough information to identify them and the treatments to successfully control them. A proposal to help those general practitioners to detect if an articular condition belongs to a Rheumatic Disease case is to present them the clinical semiology that should lead them to redirect the given conditions to a specialist on the subject, a rheumatologist. The clinical semiology is presented by an automated algorithm inside a goal-based software agent, containing all the necessary information to identify the seven most common inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases, and fourteen of the non-inflammatory ones. The purpose of this tool is to provide the general practitioner with the correct information to redirect the patient with a rheumatologist, in order for it to receive the appropriate medication to be controlled.

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