tailieunhanh - HealthDoc: Customizing patient information and health education by medical condition and personal characteristics

Adapt and expand current national population-based surveillance systems such as the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS, state-based, self-reported data), National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES, national data collection involving a combination of interviews, spirometry, and physical examinations), and the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS, national, self-reported data) to include more COPD-related information. | HealthDoc Customizing patient information and health education by medical condition and personal characteristics Chrysanne DiMarco Graeme Hirst Department of Computer Science University of Waterloo Waterloo Ontario Canada N2L 3G1 Abstract The HealthDoc project aims to provide a comprehensive approach to the customization of patient-information and health-education materials through the development of sophisticated natural language generation systems. We adopt a model of patient education that takes into account patient information ranging from simple medical data to complex cultural beliefs so that our work provides both an impetus and testbed for research in multicultural health communication. We propose a model of language generation generation by selection and repair that relies on a master-document representation that pre-determines the basic form and content of a text yet is amenable to editing and revision for customization. The implementation of this model has so far led to the design of a sentence planner that integrates multiple complex planning tasks and a rich set of ontological and linguistic knowledge sources. 1 Customizing patient-education material Present-day health-education and patient-information material is often limited in its effectiveness by the need to address it to a wide audience. What is generally produced is either a minimal generic document that contains only the information common to everyone or a maximal document that tries to provide all the information that might be relevant to someone and hence much that is irrelevant to many . But material that contains irrelevant information or omits relevant information or that for any other reason just doesn t seem to be addressed to the particular reader is likely to be discounted or ignored with consequent problems in motivation for compliance with medical regimens health-related lifestyle improvements and so on. Recognizing this health educators have paid much attention to methods of .