Accuracy of a Computer Assisted Program for 'Classic' Presentations of Dental Pain

摘要

A computer-assisted dental program to assist independent duty corpsmen in the diagnosis and management of patients who present at sea with dental pain produced the correct diagnosis 78% of the time when given information considered by dentists to be classic for the condition in question.The program correctly distinguished between dental conditions which require immediate evacuation and those which can be managed aboard submarines by independent duty corpsmen. Keywords: Medical computer applications; Diagnosis medicine. (KT)