A5106417927- Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Mental Health via Writing
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
The rapid growth of web-based symptom checkers (SCs) is not matched by advances in quality assurance. Currently, there are no widely accepted criteria assessing SCs' performance. Vignette studies used to evaluate SCs, measuring the accuracy outcome. Accuracy behaves as a composite metric it affected number individual SC- and tester-dependent factors. In contrast clinical studies, vignette have small testers. Hence, alone may provide reliable assessment performance due tester variability.
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> The rapid growth of web-based symptom checkers (SCs) is not matched by advances in quality assurance. Currently, there are no widely accepted criteria assessing SCs’ performance. Vignette studies used to evaluate SCs, measuring the accuracy outcome. Accuracy behaves as a composite metric it affected number individual SC- and tester-dependent factors. In contrast clinical studies, vignette have small testers. Hence, alone may provide reliable assessment...