TY - JOUR
T1 - Reliability of an Automated Decision Support System for Behavioral Treatment Planning
AU - Hile, Matthew
AU - Campbell, Donna M.
AU - Ghobary, Bagher B.
AU - Desrochers, Marcie N.
PY - 1994
Y1 - 1994
N2 - Automated decision support systems can provide inexperienced individuals with expert advice. But while a computer will always arrive at the same conclusion from a given set of data, human users bring individual variability to decision making. This study, therefore, examined the reliability of the decision support component of an expert system, the Mental Retardation-Expert (MR-E), which assists clinicians who treat problem behaviors of individuals with mental retardation or developmental disabilities. Four clinicians independently used MR-E to obtain consultations on 31 separate cases abstracted from the published literature. They reached a high level of agreement on functional hypotheses regardless of clinical experience, familiarity with MR-E, use of MR-E's basic or advanced modes, or consecutive number of consultations obtained.
AB - Automated decision support systems can provide inexperienced individuals with expert advice. But while a computer will always arrive at the same conclusion from a given set of data, human users bring individual variability to decision making. This study, therefore, examined the reliability of the decision support component of an expert system, the Mental Retardation-Expert (MR-E), which assists clinicians who treat problem behaviors of individuals with mental retardation or developmental disabilities. Four clinicians independently used MR-E to obtain consultations on 31 separate cases abstracted from the published literature. They reached a high level of agreement on functional hypotheses regardless of clinical experience, familiarity with MR-E, use of MR-E's basic or advanced modes, or consecutive number of consultations obtained.
KW - Computer
KW - interrater reliability
KW - mental retardation
KW - performance support system
UR - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J407v10n04_02
U2 - 10.1300/J407v10n04_02
DO - 10.1300/J407v10n04_02
M3 - Article
VL - 10
JO - Computers in Human Services
JF - Computers in Human Services
ER -