Uvemaster: A Mobile App-Based Decision Support System for the Differential Diagnosis of Uveitis.

نویسندگان

  • Jose A Gegundez-Fernandez
  • Jose I Fernandez-Vigo
  • David Diaz-Valle
  • Rosalia Mendez-Fernandez
  • Ricardo Cuiña-Sardiña
  • Enrique Santos-Bueso
  • Jose M Benitez-Del-Castillo
چکیده

Purpose To examine the diagnostic accuracy and performance of Uvemaster, a mobile application (app) or diagnostic decision support system (DDSS) for uveitis. The app contains a large database of knowledge including 88 uveitis syndromes each with 76 clinical items, both ocular and systemic (total 6688) and their respective prevalences, and displays a differential diagnoses list (DDL) ordered by sensitivity, specificity, or positive predictive value (PPV). Methods In this retrospective case-series study, diagnostic accuracy (percentage of cases for which a correct diagnosis was obtained) and performance (percentage of cases for which a specific diagnosis was obtained) were determined in reported series of patients originally diagnosed by a uveitis specialist with specific uveitis (N = 88) and idiopathic uveitis (N = 71), respectively. Results Diagnostic accuracy was 96.6% (95% confidence interval [CI], 93.2-100). By sensitivity, the original diagnosis appeared among the top three in the DDL in 90.9% (95% CI, 84.1-96.6) and was the first in 73.9% (95% CI, 63.6-83.0). By PPV, the original diagnosis was among the top DDL three in 62.5% (95% CI, 51.1-71.6) and the first in 29.5% (95% CI, 20.5-38.6; P < 0.001). In 71 (31.1%) patients originally diagnosed with idiopathic uveitis, 19 new diagnoses were made reducing this series to 52 (22.8%) and improving by 8.3% the new rate of diagnosed specific uveitis cases (performance = 77.2%; 95% CI, 71.1-82.9). Conclusions Uvemaster proved accurate and based on the same clinical data was able to detect more cases of specific uveitis than the original clinician only-based method.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

دوره 58 10  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2017