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Patient Computer Dialog in Primary Care

NCT00386776 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 45

Last updated 2013-06-20

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Summary

With this clinical study, we hoped to find out if interactive, computer-based medical interviews, when carefully tested and honed and made available to patients in their homes on the Internet, will improve both the efficiency and quality of medical care and be well received and found helpful by patients and their physicians. We developed the computer-based medical interview consisting of over 6000 questions and a corresponding program that provides a concisely written, summary of the patient's responses to the questions in the interview. We then conducted read aloud and test/retest reliability evaluations of the interview and summary programs and determined the programs to be reliable. Results were published in the November 27, 2010 issue of the Journal of the American medical Informatics Association. We also developed, edited, and revised a program that provides a concisely written, summary of the patient's responses to the questions in the interview.

We obtained a grant from the Rx Foundation to conduct clinical trial of our medical history. At the time of the office visit, the summary of the computer-based history of those patients who had completed the interview was available on the doctor's computer screen for the doctor and patient to use together on a voluntary basis. The results of this trial were published in the January 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Informatics Association.

Conditions

  • Patient Computer Dialog

Interventions

OTHER

Computer-based medical history

The intervention is a computer-based medical interview, which contains 232 primary questions that are asked of all respondents, and over 6000 frames (questions, explanations, suggestions, recommendations, and words of encouragement) that are available for presentation as determined by the patient's responses and the branching logic of the program.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Warner V Slack, MD · Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-01-31
Primary Completion
2011-01-31
Completion
2011-01-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

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