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<Paper uid="W97-0905">
  <Title>Tailored Patient Information: Some Issues and Questions</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Tailored patient information (TPI) systems are computer programs which produce persoualised heath-information material for patients. TPI systems are of growing interest to the natural-language generation (NLG) community; many TPI systems have also been developed in the medical community, usually with mail-merge technology. No matter what technology is used, experience shows that it is not easy to field a TPI system, even ff it is shown to be effective in clinical trials. In this paper we discuss some of the difficulties in fielding TPI systems.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> This is based on our experiences with 2 TPI systems, one for generating asthma-information booklets and one for generating smoking-cessation letters.</Paragraph>
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