Patient-directed intelligent and interactive computer medical history-gathering systems: A utility and feasibility study in the emergency department

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 283-288

  Benaroia, Mark ^a,b   Elinson, Roman ^c   Zarnke, Kelly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b KINGSTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c Family Medicine   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attitude to computers; Automatic data processing; Computerized; Expert systems; Medical history taking methods; Medical record systems; Point of care systems

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; EXPERT SYSTEMS; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING/METHODS; MEDICAL RECORD SYSTEMS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; EXPERT SYSTEM; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WAITING ROOM;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; CANADA; DATA COLLECTION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33847418741     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2006.01.006     Document Type: Article

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