AIDA for the automation of the patient history.
This article describes the application of a fourth-generation programming package (AIDA) for the construction of an interactive system for history-taking. It is shown that this system has been made very flexible and user-friendly, and that patients can easily answer all questions themselves. Parts of the system, that are supported by AIDA, are an interactive terminal with special, illuminated function keys, a screen driver for the generation and maintenance of 28 different screens, extensive help texts (with 260 help messages), and a report generator. The screens contain altogether 402 questions, through which 434 different answers can be given on 179 different items. The system has been evaluated extensively.
Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
M J
MJ
Quaak
P J
PJ
van der Voort
J H
JH
van Bemmel
D003199:Computer Systems; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D008487:Medical History Taking; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D012984:Software; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014584:User-Computer Interface