DisTeam: A decision support tool for surgical team selection

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Highlights:

• DisTeam facilitates decision making in surgical team selection procedure.

• It considers history of surgical teams as well as specific characteristics of each patient.

• A ranked list of suggested surgical team(s) for a given patient is identified by minimizing potential complications.

• DisTeam was tested using intra-operative data from 6,065 unique orthopedic surgery cases.

• Our results suggest high effectiveness of DisTeam in health-care setting.

摘要

•DisTeam facilitates decision making in surgical team selection procedure.•It considers history of surgical teams as well as specific characteristics of each patient.•A ranked list of suggested surgical team(s) for a given patient is identified by minimizing potential complications.•DisTeam was tested using intra-operative data from 6,065 unique orthopedic surgery cases.•Our results suggest high effectiveness of DisTeam in health-care setting.

论文关键词:Genetic algorithm,Decision support,Intra-operative,Surgical team selection,Patients’ outcome,Orthopedics

论文评审过程:Received 14 July 2016, Revised 18 January 2017, Accepted 5 February 2017, Available online 10 February 2017, Version of Record 3 March 2017.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artmed.2017.02.002