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Tailored Internet Information Supply for Patients

NCT00746408 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 500

Last updated 2009-06-16

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Summary

Medical expert systems in combination with portal searching meta-search engines are exploited to provide reliable patient-tailored information. A prototype of a web-based information system has been developed and is to be evaluated. Its aim is to answer the decisive question whether expert system guided internet meta-search provides a better information supply for patients seeking health information online then this is possible by using ordinary search engines or health portals. The research does neither investigate the influence of ethical nor legal aspects of internet health information supply.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Expert system guided tailored information

The prototype is realised by a web-based information system. The HTML web-interface guides the user through the search process by querying the information demand. This is done by an integrated expert system. The expert system uses a rule based inference to determine an internal diagnosis. Based on this internal diagnosis the system searches quality labeled websites and presents relevant information to the user.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Bremen University of Applied Sciences

    collaborator OTHER

  • Health & Life Sciences University, Tryol

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Wilfried Honekamp, MSc & Dipl.-Inform. · Health & Life Sciences University Tyrol, Austria

  • Herwig Ostermann, Dr. · Health & Life Sciences University Tyrol, Austria

  • Roland Staudinger, Prof. · Health & Life Sciences University Tyrol, Austria

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-01-31
Primary Completion
2009-09-30
Completion
2009-09-30

Countries

  • Austria

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