NLP to Aid in the Evaluation and Diagnosis of FGIDs

Mass General Brigham

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05501028

2018P001542

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study has two arms, where the same natural language processing (NLP) and probabilistic graphical modeling technology will be utilized on patients' report of symptoms in both arms. The clinical arm is focused on patients presenting for consultation with a gastroenterologist. The endoscopy arm is focused generally on patients presenting for a diagnostic endoscopy, with the goal of capturing Functional Gastrointestinal Disorder (FGID) patients prior to diagnosis.

Enrollment: 700 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Scheduled for consult in the Motility Clinic in the MGH Gastroenterology Unit or for diagnostic endoscopy in the MGH Gastroenterology Unit
• Patient must agree to have their interactions audio-recorded
• Informed consent form signed by the subjects

Exclusion criteria

• Non-native English speaker
• Patients unable to communicate their own symptoms

Trial design

700 participants in 2 patient groups

Patients scheduled for consult with gastroenterologist

Patients scheduled for diagnostic endoscopy