Computer Assisted Medical History

Evaluation of a Computer-assisted Screening Method for Medical History Records

“…If all questions in VER-SION III were answered negatively, male patients would have been asked a total of 107 questions and female patients 112 questions. The maximum number of questions for male patients [3,27] as well as the questionnaire MSH-VIII [9], which was developed with reference to existing questionnaires (compare [19] is 178 and for female patients 176. The question catalogue (complete in [21]) is available in German, Italian, Serbo-Croatian and Turkish.…”

“…These diagnostic categories were chosen because the related problems are not easily identifiable during a physical examination, but this is possible by means of a questionnaire. For the 94 diagnostic categories, 1,091 symptom questions were formulated by 13 specialists in various fields, following the suggested method of target-oriented formulation by Moehr [9,10]. These questions, combined in our questionnaire, assist the doctor ill Ill:Iking his diagnosis 2).…”

“…The length of time required to compile an accurate and complete medical record [1,9,11]' coupled with variable factors, both on the part of the doctor and the patient [5,19,21,25], very early led to an improvement in the method of recording medical histories as well as a standardization of the procedure [9,18,21,25,26]. A result of this is the wide use of checklists for the doctor and questionnaires for the patients, both with and without the assistance of a computer [18,23].…”