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On understanding the power of judgement in percutaneous coronary intervention

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Summary

Aim

Explain how research can advance the state-ofthe- practice in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

Methods and results

Identifying the success factors of PCI; identifying decision- making performance (power of judgement) as the factor that could be advanced faster than is currently the case; explaining why and how such advancement needs a different research approach than those currently pursued in medical research; presenting initial results of this approach in the form of a set of basic concepts (pivoting around risk) that are useful for describing the decision-making process during a PCI.

Conclusion

Building a terminology (ontology) of PCI decision-making concepts and then eliciting expert knowledge about the decision-making process itself are promising ways of advancing the teachability of PCI and hence the state-of-thepractice.

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  1. Hospitals and Clinics Bitterfeld/Wolfen, Department of Internal Medicine, Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Straße 2, 06749, Bitterfeld, Germany

    Peter Lanzer

  2. Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Informatik, Takustr. 9, 14195, Berlin, Germany

    Lutz Prechelt

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Prechelt, L., Lanzer, P. On understanding the power of judgement in percutaneous coronary intervention. Clin Res Cardiol 96, 199–203 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00392-007-0485-0

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