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ArticleBMC medical informatics and decision making2022

Fuzzy constraint-based agent negotiation framework for doctor-patient shared decision-making.

Kaibiao Lin, Yong Liu, Ping Lu, Yimin Yang, Haiting Fan, Feiping Hong

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Kaibiao LinSchool of Computer and Information Engineering, Xiamen University of Technology, Xiamen, 361024, China.
Yong LiuSchool of Computer and Information Engineering, Xiamen University of Technology, Xiamen, 361024, China. 1922031130@s.xmut.edu.cn.
Ping LuSchool of Economic and Management, Xiamen University of Technology, Xiamen, 361024, China. luping@xmut.edu.cn.
Yimin YangDepartment of Pediatrics, Xiamen Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xiamen, 361024, China.
Haiting FanDepartment of Pediatrics, Xiamen Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Xiamen, 361024, China.
Feiping HongDepartment of Neonates, Xiamen Humanity Hospital, Xiamen, 361024, China.

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backgroundThe clinical practice of shared decision-making (SDM) has grown in importance. However, most studies on SDM practice concentrated on providing auxiliary knowledge from the third-party standpoint without consideration for the value preferences of doctors and patients. The essences of these methods are complete and manual negotiation, and the problems of high cost, time consumption, delayed response, and decision fatigue are serious.

methodsIn response to the above limitations, this article proposes a fuzzy constraint-directed agent-based negotiation and recommendation framework for bilateral and multi-issue preference negotiation in SDM (PN-SDM). Its purpose is to provide preference information and intellectualize PN-SDM to promote SDM practice. We modeled PN-SDM problems as distributed fuzzy constraint satisfaction problems and designed the doctor agent and patient agent to negotiate on behalf of the doctor and patient. The negotiation result was then transformed into treatment plans by the recommendation model. The proposed negotiation and recommendation models were introduced in detail by an instance.

resultsThe proposed method with different strategies and negotiation pairs achieves good performance in terms of negotiation running time, negotiation rounds, and combined aggregated satisfaction value. Specifically, it can feasibly and effectively complete multiple rounds of PN-SDM in a few seconds and obtain higher satisfaction.

conclusionThe experimental results indicate that the negotiation model can effectively simulate preference negotiation and relieve the pressure of increasing issues. The recommendation model can assist in decision-making and help to realize SDM. In addition, it can flexibly cope with various negotiation scenarios by using different negotiation strategies (e.g., collaborative, win-win, and competitive).

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NegotiatingPatient ParticipationDecision MakingDecision Making, SharedHumansPhysician-Patient RelationsAgentFuzzy constraintNegotiationShared decision-makingTreatments recommendation

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