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A Lazer

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Interactive computer program for self-distributed medical questionnaire in a population health screening.

The questionnaire is an important element of a medical screening investigation, just as important as the biometrical screening tests. There are several difficulties in realizing interactive computer programs for such tasks. In the present report, we describe the design, operation and results of an interactive computer program for self-distributed medical questionnaire in which the screening subjects are informed and instructed on the terminal routines, and answer, check, confirm and record the questions direct in the computer terminals by means of simple keyboard functions. This program was possible to construct as an integrated component of the interactive computer system monitoring our multiphasic health screening in a standard minicomputer environment.

Computers

Experiences with an interactive computer program for recording biometrical health screening data.

The nurses' measurements of biometrical health screening data comprise the central elements in our multiphasic preventive medical investigation in Malmö. It is also vitally important for the information processing, evaluation and actions of the screening that all test values and other data can be supplied to a uniform computer bank without delay in terms of secondary transferral routines. In our ongoing population investigation projectin Malmö, this has been accomplished by on-line computer programs for the different components of the screening. Here we describe the practical experiences with the subroutine use by the nurses to feed the biometrical test results to the computer bank.

Biometry

Interactive computer system for monitoring multiphasic health screening.

In an on-going population screening investigation at the Department of Preventive Medicine in Malmö, an interactive computer system has been developed for monitoring: (i) the electron and invitation of the health screening population; (ii) on-line registration and representation of demographic informations, test results and questionnaires; (iii) generation of the patient files and other listings; (iv) systems for diagnostic and statistical processing and representation. Ten thousand health screening investigations have now been monitored by the system, which is described in this report.

Computers