Tailored Internet Information Supply for Patients

Study of the Quality of Self-Diagnosis by Headache Patients Getting Tailored Internet Information

Status

UNKNOWN

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00746408

Enrollment

500

Registered

2008-09-04

Start date

2009-01-31

Completion date

2009-09-30

Last updated

2009-06-16

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Conditions

Headache

Keywords

Internet, Information supply, Tailoring, Patient empowerment, Headaches, Consumer Health Information, Information Services, Information Storage and Retrieval, Information Systems

Brief summary

Medical expert systems in combination with portal searching meta-search engines are exploited to provide reliable patient-tailored information. A prototype of a web-based information system has been developed and is to be evaluated. Its aim is to answer the decisive question whether expert system guided internet meta-search provides a better information supply for patients seeking health information online then this is possible by using ordinary search engines or health portals. The research does neither investigate the influence of ethical nor legal aspects of internet health information supply.

Interventions

OTHERExpert system guided tailored information

The prototype is realised by a web-based information system. The HTML web-interface guides the user through the search process by querying the information demand. This is done by an integrated expert system. The expert system uses a rule based inference to determine an internal diagnosis. Based on this internal diagnosis the system searches quality labeled websites and presents relevant information to the user.

Study design

Observational model

CASE_CONTROL

Time perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 75 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Age between 18 and 75 * Suffers at least occasionally from headaches * Has internet access * Has not obtained a medical diagnosis (concerning this headache) by a physician, yet

Exclusion criteria

* Age under 18 * Age over 75 * Does never suffer from headaches * Has no internet access * Has already gotten a medical diagnosis for her/his headaches

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Conformity of self-diagnosis and medical diagnosis	After medical diagnoses has been received

Countries

Austria

Contacts

Primary ContactWilfried Honekamp, MSc & Dipl.-Inform.

wilfried.honekamp@umit.at+49 (0) 178 1604553

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026