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2011 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
How Medical Expertise Influences the Understanding of Symptom Intensities - A Fuzzy Approach
verfasst von : Franziska Bocklisch, Maria Stephan, Barbara Wulfken, Steffen F. Bocklisch, Josef F. Krems
Erschienen in: Information Quality in e-Health
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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This paper examines the role of imprecision in the interpretation of verbal symptom intensities (e.g.,
high
fever) depending on the level of medical expertise. In a contrastive study we compare
low
,
medium
and
high
level experts (medical students vs. physicians with
M =
5.3 vs.
M =
24.9 years of experience) concerning their interpretation of symptom intensities. For obtaining and modeling of empirical data a fuzzy approach was used. The resulting fuzzy membership functions (MF) reflect the meanings of the verbal symptom intensities. The two main findings are: (1) with increasing expertise the precision of the MF increase such that
low
level experts have very vague concepts compared to
high
level experts and (2) the precision depends on the symptom (e.g., intensities of
fever
are more precise than
pain
intensities).