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This paper presents an approach for providing patients with personalised explanations of their medical record. Simple text planning techniques are used to construct relevant explanations based on information in the record and information in a general medical knowledge base. We discuss the results of the evaluation of our system with diabetes patients at three diabetes clinics in Scotland.
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Binsted, K., Cawsey, A., Jones, R. (1995). Generating personalised patient information using the medical record. In: Barahona, P., Stefanelli, M., Wyatt, J. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. AIME 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 934. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60025-6_123
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