Adapt: SnakebiteTriage: Explainable Clinical Decision-Support System for Snakebite Assessment, Triage and Referral (Version 1.0)

Description

SnakebiteTriage is an open-source, AI-assisted, explainable Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) developed to strengthen the assessment, triage, emergency management, referral, and monitoring of snakebite patients in resource-constrained healthcare settings. The platform supports frontline healthcare workers by providing structured, evidence-based guidance during the initial evaluation and ongoing management of patients presenting with suspected snakebite envenoming.

The system combines standardized clinical assessment workflows, evidence-based clinical algorithms, guideline-derived decision logic, and contextual risk factors to generate transparent clinical recommendations with an auditable rationale. Rather than functioning as an opaque predictive model, SnakebiteTriage enables healthcare workers to understand the clinical basis for each recommendation, supporting consistent, guideline-concordant decision-making while maintaining clinician oversight. The platform assists healthcare providers in identifying severe envenoming, determining referral urgency, recommending appropriate emergency management pathways, and supporting patient monitoring throughout the continuum of care.

Designed for deployment in low-resource environments, SnakebiteTriage operates with offline functionality and can be configured to align with national or institutional snakebite management guidelines. Its modular architecture supports interoperability with existing digital health systems and facilitates adaptation to different healthcare settings without requiring substantial infrastructure investment.

This repository includes:

• Complete source code for the SnakebiteTriage Clinical Decision Support System.

• Technical documentation and system architecture.

• Clinical workflows, evidence-based decision logic, and assessment algorithms.

• Validation documentation and supporting implementation materials.

• Installation, configuration, and deployment guides.

• User documentation and administrator manuals.

• Sample configuration files and implementation resources.

• Version history, release notes, and software licensing information.

The repository promotes transparency, reproducibility, collaborative software development, and implementation research in digital health. By making the software and supporting documentation openly available, it enables researchers, software developers, clinicians, ministries of health, public health practitioners, and implementation partners to evaluate, adapt, validate, and further improve the platform while appropriately acknowledging the original developers.

SnakebiteTriage is intended to support safer, more standardized, and evidence-based snakebite care, particularly in low- and middle-income countries where access to specialist expertise may be limited. The platform provides a foundation for implementation research, health-system strengthening, and future integration within national digital health ecosystems.

Keywords: Snakebite, Snakebite Envenoming, Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS), Explainable AI, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Health, Emergency Care, Triage, Referral, Health Informatics, Mobile Health, Clinical Decision Support, Global Health, Neglected Tropical Diseases, Open Source Software, Resource-Limited Settings.