Information Presentation in Decision Making Support for Colorectal Cancer Screening

Colorectal cancer is the fourth most common cancer and the second most common cause of death among both genders. Since early detection can significantly improve patients’ survival rate, one of the physician’s primary obligations is to develop adequate screening plans to achieve early detection. Instead of using operational research models to make screening decisions for physicians, we proposed a decision making support tool to help physicians with their decision making process. Specifically, an information presentation interface is developed on top of a mathematical model to better deliver and illustrate the result of cost and benefit analysis for physicians’ final decision making.