EXPERIENCE IN SETTING UP AND INTRODUCING A DORSOPATHY INFORMATION SYSTEM IN AN AIRCRAFT PHYCISIAN'S PRACTICE
Objective: to set up an information system for physicians treating patients with musculoskeletal back pain. Materials and methods. A list of informational parameters on the topic of studies and the ranges of their values, which are most common in practice, has been made. Results. Three major components of an information system: an expert database for the physicians of medical flight inspection commissions; a knowledge base; and a dorsopathy database for researches, pedagogical and therapeutic - and-prophylactic work, have been developed and tested. Conclusion. The devised dorsopathy information system for an air crew may be a valuable means in improving the mastery of beginning vertebral neurologists and simultaneously a tool for many researches on this problem.