Objective medical decision making acute abdominal pain

Informations projet

N° de convention de subvention: MR4*0034

Projet clôturé

Date de début 1 Janvier 1988

Date de fin 31 Decembre 1990

Financé au titre de

• Research and development coordination programme (EEC) in the field of medical and health research, 1987-1991

Coût total

Aucune donnée

Contribution de l’UE

Aucune donnée

Coordonné par

University of Leeds
United Kingdom

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Résultats exploitables

Computer aided diagnosis of acute abdominal pain

The project has dealt with objective medical decision making in relation to acute abdominal pain. Over 450 clinicians and scientists in 64 institutions in 19 different countries have participated in a network of collaborating centres, along with input from 18 national and international societies. Agreement has been reached concerning a minimum dataset of information to be collected from patients presented to hospital with acute abdominal pain, together with definitions of terminology for each clinical feature and criteria for diagnosis of each specific disease. On this basis a proforma has been developed and translated into most major European languages for the purposes of quality controlled, reproducible data collection. Clinical information concerning 15000 acute abdominal pain cases has been collected. Immediate benefits have occurred within the institutions participating in the project. There is evidence that institutions associated with the project have (when compared with unaided baseline or national figures) achieved the following benefits: reduction of residual diagnostic error rate by 40%; reduction in unnecessary operation rate by two fifths; reduction in preforation rate in appendicitis cases by half. Longer term benefits are now available for the European Community (EC) in terms of: the existence of an agreed reproducible terminology for acute abdominal pain; the creation of a language independent computer program to aid objective medical decision making and clinical audit; the development of an EC wide multinational research team from groups of scattered workers; the creation and distribution of decision support materials, structured proformata, teaching videotapes and computer programs widely throughout the EC; the availability of a database of information, strictly controlled for quality, for further clinical research and for evaluation of further decision support technology in the future.