How accurate are digital symptom assessment apps for suggesting conditions and urgency advice? A clinical vignettes comparison to GPs.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To compare breadth of condition coverage, accuracy of suggested conditions and appropriateness of urgency advice of eight popular symptom assessment apps.

Design

Vignettes study.

Setting

200 primary care vignettes.

Intervention/comparator

For eight apps and seven general practitioners (GPs): breadth of coverage and condition-suggestion and urgency advice accuracy measured against the vignettes' gold-standard.

Primary outcome measures

(1) Proportion of conditions 'covered' by an app, that is, not excluded because the user was too young/old or pregnant, or not modelled; (2) proportion of vignettes with the correct primary diagnosis among the top 3 conditions suggested; (3) proportion of 'safe' urgency advice (ie, at gold standard level, more con

SUBMITTER: Gilbert S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7745523 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature