Figure 3
Preliminary symptom prediction system that uses the presence of fatigue as system input. Fatigue is the second most frequently volunteered symptom by patients with advanced cancer5, and in our Bayesian network this symptom was identified as the symptom that most frequently was directly associated with other USD-listed symptoms (7 other symptoms). When using fatigue as system input, the conditional probabilities (%) of the patient also experiencing pain, dry mouth, sleeping problems, lack of appetite, nausea, shortness of breath and anxiety can be presented. This may help clinicians to prioritize which symptoms to assess.
