At a glance
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Quality Assessment for History Taking With or Without an Knowledge Based Interview System.
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Computer-assisted history, physician taken history, and 1 other intervention for Hypertension and 4 related conditions. Completed, enrolled 98 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
Aim: To investigate the quality of history taking by physician and computer-based system. Patients: 100 inpatients presenting at the RBK for the first time and treated in the departments of nephrology and cardiology. Methods: The information obtained by the computer based system is compared with the information acquired by conventional history taking. Study endpoint is the comparison of historical data organized according to the elements in a standard medical history on a patient-by-patient basis. Study procedure History taking is performed by physicians according to the guidelines of the RBK. Within 2 days thereafter the patient is interviewed with help of the CLEOS system with the support of a study nurse.
Study Details
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Interventions
Methods The intervention was use of an expert system to acquire medical histories by direct interview of patients. Description of the software program - The program tested in this study consisted of a data acquisition \[history-taking\] component and a data analysis component. The data acquisition component was constructed on the basis of established principles of pathophysiology. Medical knowledge was formalized as software algorithms that were machine-readable by representing the knowledge as branched chain decision trees.
Convential history taking by physicians