Trial of a computer based program for the diagnosis of abdominal pain in males / by Peter L. Perrotta and Douglas M. Stetson.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Perrotta, Peter L.

Contributor:

Stetson, Douglas M.

United States. Naval Medical Research and Development Command

Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory

Series:

Report (Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory) ; no. 1181.

Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory report ; 1181

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Abdominal pain--Diagnosis--Evaluation.

Abdominal pain.

Medicine--Data processing--Evaluation.

Medicine.

Medicine, Naval--United States--Evaluation.

Medicine, Naval.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iii, 16, [2] pages)

Place of Publication:

Groton, Conn. : Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory, [1992]

Summary:

This report presents and evaluates data collected in 1988 in an effort to verify the NSMRL abdominal pain diagnostic program. Overall diagnostic accuracy of the program was found to be 69% compared to the 80% accuracy rate of emergency room physicians. Sensitivity and specificity for distinguishing surgical from non-surgical cases was 56% and 85% respectively. Additional measures of performance of the abdominal pain program are presented along with the limitations of the data set and recommendations for future validation efforts ... Computer based diagnosis, Abdominal pain, Males.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed October 3, 2012).

"2 September 92."

Includes bibliographical references (page 12).

Other Format:

Print version: Perrotta, P.L. Trial of a computer based program for the diagnosis of abdominal pain in males

OCLC:

227788568

Access Restriction:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE.