A multilingual self-administered symptom history.
A multilingual computer-derived symptom history was developed from a two-stage yes-no symptom questionaire, based on a library of 4,000 numbered questions. The English primary and secondary questionaires were translated into German, Italian, French, Spanish, Greek and Yugoslav. "Yes" answers to the numbered primary questions presented in these languages were processed by a computer that generated individualized secondary questions in the same language. "Yes" answers to these numbered questions were processed by a second computer program that printed out the narrative history in English. As well as other benefits of automated symptom histories, there is now a facility for the computer to acquire a patient's history in one language and print it out in any other.
D003201:Computers; D005602:France; D005858:Germany; D006115:Greece; D007558:Italy; D007802:Language; D008487:Medical History Taking; D008722:Methods; D013030:Spain; D015022:Yugoslavia