Concordance of data collected by an app for medical history taking and in-person interviews from patients in primary care.

Objective: This study investigates the concordance of patient information collected using a medical history app compared to in-person interviews.

Materials And Methods: In this cross-sectional study we used an app to collect medical data from patients in family practice in Germany. Collected information included age, height, weight, perceived severity of complaints, and 38 current complaints.

[Rescue Missions with Patients with Psychiatric and Psychosocial Symptoms: An Analysis from Eastern Lower Saxony].

Objective: Characterization of medical emergencies of patients with psychiatric symptoms or in psychosocial crisis.

Methods: Analysis of emergency medical services (EMS) mission logs from four German EMS stations of patients aged 12-65 from 2019 to 2020.

Results: 23.

Usability of an App for Medical History Taking in General Practice From the Patients' Perspective: Cross-Sectional Study.

Background: A future shortage of physicians, especially in general practice, will result in an increasing workload for health care providers as a whole. Therefore, it is important to optimize patient-encounter processes to increase time efficiency related to visits. Utilizing digital tools to record patients' medical histories prior to a consultation offers great potential to achieve this goal.

Lost in translation? Information quality in pediatric pre-hospital medical emergencies with a language barrier in Germany.

Background: In pediatric medical emergencies, paramedics and emergency physicians must often rely on the information of third parties, often caregivers, to gather information. Failing to obtain relevant information may lead to misinterpretation of symptoms and subsequent errors in decision making and clinical treatment. Thus, children and/or caregivers with limited proficiency of the locally spoken language may be at risk for medical errors.

Evaluating an app for digital medical history taking in urgent care practices: study protocol of the cluster-randomized interventional trial 'DASI'.

Background: In out-of-hours urgent care practices in Germany, physicians of different specialties care for a large number of patients, most of all unknown to them, resulting in a high workload and challenging diagnostic decision-making. As there is no common patient file, physicians have no information about patients' previous conditions or received treatments. In this setting, a digital tool for medical history taking could improve the quality of medical care.