Usage of Case Based Reasoning in Health Sciences

Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSSs) are a kind of Information Systems for improving clinical decisions. Different models of CDSSs can be used in alerts of critical values, reminders of overdue preventive health tasks, advice for drug prescribing, critiques of existing health care orders, and suggestions for various active care issues.There are different methods for developing these systems that Case Base Reasoning (CBR) is one of these methods. CBR provides subjective knowledge with applying previous cases. The underlying idea in CBR is the assumption that similar problems have similar solutions. CBR has some limitations as others methods that Many researches dedicated to solve the limitations. This study discuss about CBR and using it in medical sciences.