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Improving the Quality of Patient Care by Using a Clinical Expert System.

NCT00430755 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 98

Last updated 2015-12-18

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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.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

Computer-assisted history

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.

PROCEDURE

physician taken history

Convential history taking by physicians

OTHER

Computer-assisted history taking

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Robert Bosch Gesellschaft für Medizinische Forschung mbH (RBMF)

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Dominik M Alscher, MD · Robert Bosch Gesellschaft für Medizinische Forschung mbH (RBMF)

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-08-31
Primary Completion
2008-12-31
Completion
2008-12-31

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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