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Computer analysis of allergic histories taken by questionnaire
Author(s) -
PANTIN C. F. A.,
MERRETT J.,
LEIGHTON M.,
ROGERS H. COLTMAN,
MERRETT T. G.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
clinical and experimental allergy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.462
H-Index - 154
eISSN - 1365-2222
pISSN - 0954-7894
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2222.1978.tb03218.x
Subject(s) - atopy , immunoglobulin e , allergy , medicine , immunology , family medicine , antibody
Summary We report the development of a detailed allergy questionnaire designed so that the answers can be typed into a mini‐computer. Computer programmes have been written to file and to retrieve these answers, and to print a summary which is then ‘weighed’, so as to produce a clinical atopy score which is then further broken down into indoor and outdoor scores. In a pilot survey of ninety patients, their clinical atopy scores and immunoglobulin E (IgE) profiles have been compared, and additional computer programmes have been written which will (a) assess if a more detailed IgE investigations is warranted, and (b) suggest which allergens, if any, are likely to be responsible for the patients' symptoms.