Simplified computer-aided diagnosis of acute abdominal pain.

Computer-aided diagnosis of acute abdominal pain.

This paper reports a controlled prospective unselected real-time comparison of human and computer-aided diagnosis in a series of 304 patients suffering from abdominal pain of acute onset.The computing system's overall diagnostic accuracy (91.8%) was significantly higher than that of the most senior member of the clinical team to see each case (79.6%). It is suggested as a result of these studie...

Computer aided diagnosis of acute abdominal pain: a multicentre study.

A multicentre study of computer aided diagnosis for patients with acute abdominal pain was performed in eight centres with over 250 participating doctors and 16,737 patients. Performance in diagnosis and decision making was compared over two periods: a test period (when a small computer system was provided to aid diagnosis) and a baseline period (before the system was installed). The two period...

Audit of computer-aided diagnosis of abdominal pain in accident and emergency departments.

Computer aided diagnosis of abdominal pain: implementation difficulties in the North Western Region.

During 1987 a system for the computer-aided diagnosis of abdominal pain was introduced on a trial basis in seven district health authorities in the North Western (NW) Region. Despite good reports of the system from other areas, by the end of a 12-month period only two of the seven districts continued to use it in the routine management of patients. A study was undertaken to determine the diffic...

[Differential diagnosis of acute abdominal pain].

Ruptured AAA •Elderly •Severe generalised abdominal pain •Back pain •Reduced GCS/collapse •Shock •Peritonitis •Expansile mass •USS abdomen if freely available •CT only if stable •Don’t delay theatre •Aim for permissive hypotension (SBP ̴100) •Activate ‘massive haemorrhage protocol’ e.g. 10U •Urgent open repair (/ EVAR if stable) Appendicitis •Young patient •Periumbilical pain initially •Moves to...