DXplain Evoking Strength - Clinician Interpretation and Consistency

摘要

The clinician interpretation of the Evoking Strength score in DXplain is being investigated with the purpose of allowing consistency and quality checking. Our experience is that not all of our physician developers agree on the meaning of this score, and various possibilities, calculated from other data in the DXplain knowledge base, have been correlated against the assigned ES scores. Preliminary results indicate that the most common interpretation was that of the relative frequency of the finding in the disease compared to the frequency of the finding in the general population. This is consistent with the algorithmic use of the ES scores in the program.