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Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer Application in Medical Care logoLink to Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer Application in Medical Care
. 1988 Nov 9:579–582.

A Physician's Approach - Designing in PROLOG: A Deductive Database of Patient Statistics of Patients with Musculoskeletal Disorders

W Anthony Allison
PMCID: PMC2245259

Abstract

This report deals with the development of a deductive database of statistics of patients with musculoskeletal conditions using PROLOG as the programming language. Data representation, query rules and control structures were done in a declarative style using the MicroPROLOG interpreter. The approach to the development of the deductive database is that of a practicing physician bearing in mind recommendations of computer scientists and programmers.

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