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Medical professionals are ultimately responsible for the consequences of applying any device, treatment or examination to patients, therein the application of knowledge-based systems. With this perspective, the validation of knowledge-based systems goes beyond that of certifying their overall validity into an ongoing validation of systems application for every particular case at hand. As a consequence, systems output must contain information that makes quality assessment feasible.
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McNair, P., Brender, J. (1991). Validity of Systems Application. In: Talmon, J.L., Fox, J. (eds) Knowledge Based Systems in Medicine: Methods, Applications and Evaluation. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 47. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-08131-0_24
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