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Clinical Trial
. 1972 Apr 1;2(5804):9-13.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.5804.9.

Computer-aided diagnosis of acute abdominal pain

F T de Dombal, D J Leaper, J R Staniland, A P McCann, J C Horrocks
Clinical Trial

Computer-aided diagnosis of acute abdominal pain

F T de Dombal et al. Br Med J. .

Abstract

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 studies that the provision of such a system to aid the clinician is both feasible in a real-time clinical setting, and likely to be of practical value, albeit in a small percentage of cases.

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