INTERNIST-!, An Experimental Computer-Based Diagnostic Consultant for General Internal Medicine Randolph A. Miller, Harry E. Pople, Jr., and Jack D. Myers

To test the program during its development, MyeTs and his students would select especially difficult cases for considemtion, often ones drawn fTOm published clinical pathological confeTences in medical journals. AfteT seveTal years of testing and rf:finement of the knowledge base, the study outlined in the following chapteT was peTformed. To document the strengths and weaknesses of the pTogmm, the gTOUP performed a systematic evaluation of the pTOgTam's capabilities.