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A multilingual self-administered symptom history.

V X Gledhill, I R Mackay

    Archives of Internal Medicine
    |April 1, 1975
    PubMed
    Summary

    A new computer system creates patient symptom histories using a multilingual questionnaire. This automated system can translate patient histories into different languages, improving medical communication.

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    Area of Science:

    • Medical Informatics
    • Computational Linguistics
    • Clinical Data Acquisition

    Background:

    • Traditional patient symptom history taking can be time-consuming and prone to language barriers.
    • Automated systems offer potential for efficiency and standardization in clinical data collection.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop and evaluate a multilingual, computer-derived system for automated patient symptom history acquisition.
    • To enable the translation of patient histories between multiple languages.

    Main Methods:

    • A two-stage, yes-no symptom questionnaire was developed, comprising 4,000 questions.
    • The English questionnaire was translated into German, Italian, French, Spanish, Greek, and Yugoslav.
    • Computer programs processed 'yes' answers to generate individualized secondary questions and a final English narrative history.

    Main Results:

    • A functional multilingual computer-derived symptom history system was successfully developed.
    • The system demonstrated the capability to acquire patient histories in one language and output them in another.
    • Automated narrative history generation in English was achieved.

    Conclusions:

    • Computer-derived, multilingual symptom histories offer significant benefits for clinical data acquisition.
    • The developed system facilitates cross-lingual patient history reporting, enhancing global healthcare communication.
    • Automated symptom history taking improves efficiency and accessibility in diverse linguistic settings.

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